Rome Day 1…couldn’t find the Vatican

Got off the bus at the Vatican stop, big place you think, important place you think, really really famous, can’t be too hard to find you think… ahhhh but you hadn’t counted out geographically challenged people in an Italian city! After 1+ hours of going many wrong ways we eventually discovered the Vatican, given away by a humongous wall and a very long queue to get into the Basillica. So that put paid to today’s plan and we got on a bus and headed for the Coliseum, found that. We signed up for the tour and spent a couple of hours immersed in the blood and excitement of the Coliseum. The tour lady was very good.


We walked past the Piazza Venezia on the way there, wow, big place, lots of statues etc. After visiting the coliseum there was a protest going on in the Piazza (apparently something to do with labour laws) and so we headed for the metro. I was trying to remember the claim to fame of the Roman metro, can’t remember, it is the most something??? Anyway, we got back to our camp ground after two metros and the bus.
Side note: it has got very cold all of a sudden, not sure how we are going to cope if it doesn’t warm up soon, head south we think, that tends to do the trick.
Ciao