Wednesday 12th etc Rome

This is just a memory jogger for me to fill in the details later.

Tuesday night we walked about 30M from the Hotel for dinner. (must get the name) & ate pasta, steak & veal.  Sensational  (Compared to the food we had most of Wednesday)

Slept through until 5am - pretty good we thought - seems that is 12:30 pm Adelaide time.  Feels like we've broken the back of our jetlag.

Went down for Breakfast at 7 - great food & wonderful coffee.  

We took off at 8 because we knew the Colosseum opened at 8:30.  Bought a 2 day pass for the Colosseum & Forum (Which includes the Palatine Hill) Bought an audio tour for the Colosseum.  Sensational to be in there.  It is HUGE.  TV can't do justice to some things & this is one of them. Getting there so early meant we beat the crowds & temperature was very comfortable. 

Went into the Forum/Palatine Hills area & it took us almost 3 hours to get through it.  Truly amazing. Learnt so much!

At the far end of the Forum is the Musei Capitolini (Capital City Museum).  Spent a couple of hours in there & was in awe of the best of the best of everything about Rome that dates back to about 2,000BC.  It has this underground tunnel that leads out to balconies overlooking the forum.  Great spot.

Looking through the Forum from the balcony of the Musei

Then walked all the way back past the Colosseum to a church called San Clemente... (fill in later).  It is a C14th? church built on a C4th church & that is in turn built on a C1 house.  It is partially excavated  so for 5 Eu each we went down.  Fascinating.

Just before the church we had some very ordinary Pizza - not a patch on what we had bought in a lunch bar yesterday.

Anyway - got home about 5 - so 9 hours solid "touristing".  Tired feet.  Had dinner next door to the hotel.  As usual overly attentive wait staff, but the food was very average.  They mixed up our tortellini order - so offered free Limoncellos to compensate.  The limoncello was the best part of the meal.  I had lemon veal scallops - not too bad.  Rhonda is in love with "real veal"as we have called it compared to what gets sold as veal at home.