On the day we were going to depart from Santorini, I was quite sad because we are going to need to walk a lot again. We had a quick lunch in McD when we stopover in Athens. I pulled some attentions when I uploaded this picture to facebook of me eating the Greek wrap. People were asking why am I eating McD in Europe trip? We had not much choice, we wanted a quick lunch and wifi so McD is a pretty good option available that time. I have not been eating fastfood for long and I had never tasted the wrap in Malaysia before so I can't comment if it tasted better or worse.
When we arrived in Rome, it was already pretty late at about 4pm. Late in terms of going out to do visiting. But I already planned to go to Castel St Angelo for night photo shooting of the city and the weather seems pretty good so we checked in to hotel, dropped our bags and hopped on to a bus to go to our destination. We purchased Rome pass and it's a very good deal as we used the public transport and the 2 free tickets to any museums for 2days. The pass actually can last for 3 days. Lucky that we went because the scenery from the top of the building was really beautiful.
After having a good rest, the next day we went to some attractions. Throw coins into trevi fountain and you will be back to Rome soon.
Pantheon is a great architecture considering when it was build the technology was not present yet. There is a hole at the dome and rain can drop into the hall but there are some tiny holes to let the water flow out on the ground where the rain falls. In Pantheon also resides the first 2 of Italian kings remain.
The churches/basilica in Rome has this nice paintings and cravings on it's wall or ceiling. The 2 pictures below was taken in Basilica of St. John Lateran.
Who goes to Rome without going to Colosseum? No one. We went there pretty late. It's a combo ticket which allow you to enter the Palatine Hill, Roman Forum and Colosseum all together. We used our Roma pass on this.
We waited till the night and the place was lighted up. There were a lot Indian illegal immigrants that sells things like umbrella, souvenirs, scarves and accessories. They are really versatile. When it rained, they will sell umbrella and poncho butwhen the sun came out, they will sell scarves and others. We saw some of them running when the police came and raid.
When we went to Vatican museums, we saw a lot of naked statues. There are some which has leaf covering the guys private parts.
All the roof are decorated with paintings and cravings.
We are not allowed to photograph in Sistine Chapel but my itchy hands took this. Micheal Angelo painted this on the ceiling!
After the walk in museums, we came out and went to St Peter Square and just sat, lazying around. We didn't go into St Peter Basilica just because we were not interested and the queue was damn long.
Here's the picture of the basilica. No, Pope didn't stand at the balcony on that day.
We had gelato and my hubby didn't know what is gelato until he sees it.
This is the lift that goes up to our hotel. Super small, it only fit 2 of us, 1 carry on and 1 checked in baggage. Imagine that!
OK that's all about Rome. I didn't have any photos on the food we ate. We always go for pasta and once pizza in a pizzaria.
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