Day 3 in Roma and we decided to head for the Colosseum. It was literally a 7 min walk down the hill from our hotel so it was nice and easy to find! We came to one side of it and had to walk around to find where the ticket entrance was but, we were so busy dodging people trying to sell us umbrellas (yes, jut for a change, it was raining. Oh, if I haven't mentioned it, its been raining about 2/3 of the time we've been in Europe! hehehe) and tour company people that we ended up missing the ticket entrance and having to walk around the entire Colosseum again! Ah well, got for our ever increasing waistlines (the food is just too damn good!). We finally get to the entrance, pay our money and head upstairs. For the first hour, we were too entranced by this cool exhibition on the Flavian Emporers (yes Flavs, I did have a bit of a giggle about that!) to actually head outside to see the good bits! The exhibition had the history of the Flavian period and heaps of cool statues, artifacts etc that had been found in the area which helped to describe the time period! They were so freakin' old! Incredible!!!
Finally, we battled the rain to head out to check out the Colosseum itself. SOOOOO COOL! If you stopped to think about it, you could really actually imagine the animals being lifted up and down in their cages from the underground section and then some crazy dude fighting a rhino or whatever!! (Not that I'm a huge fan of the idea of killing innocent animals but I guess they didn't have much of an animal liberation movement back in those days!)
It was absolutely peeing down at the Colosseum so after we'd been suitably amazed, we decided to head to our fave restaurant for a snack and a glass of Pinot Grigio. Of course, this was a suitably lovely way to spend the afternoon and we just mooched around at the hotel eating our homebrand antipasto before we headed for dinner at another nearby restaurant (there were a few of them I tell ya!). Again, we had a great meal and I felt brave enough to try my first espresso! I'd never had a short black back home so I was a bit nervous but I AM SO HOOKED now! Even Matt had a sip and liked it! I have had about 500 more of them since then and absolutely love them! We got some gelati at the shop next door to eat on the walk home to the hotel so, all in all, it was an evening of gastronomic delights!
Finally, we battled the rain to head out to check out the Colosseum itself. SOOOOO COOL! If you stopped to think about it, you could really actually imagine the animals being lifted up and down in their cages from the underground section and then some crazy dude fighting a rhino or whatever!! (Not that I'm a huge fan of the idea of killing innocent animals but I guess they didn't have much of an animal liberation movement back in those days!)
It was absolutely peeing down at the Colosseum so after we'd been suitably amazed, we decided to head to our fave restaurant for a snack and a glass of Pinot Grigio. Of course, this was a suitably lovely way to spend the afternoon and we just mooched around at the hotel eating our homebrand antipasto before we headed for dinner at another nearby restaurant (there were a few of them I tell ya!). Again, we had a great meal and I felt brave enough to try my first espresso! I'd never had a short black back home so I was a bit nervous but I AM SO HOOKED now! Even Matt had a sip and liked it! I have had about 500 more of them since then and absolutely love them! We got some gelati at the shop next door to eat on the walk home to the hotel so, all in all, it was an evening of gastronomic delights!
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