Took the early train down to Roma today for a two night stay. Quite a bit hotter in Roma then Celano but it wasn’t too bad. Our apartment was in the centre of the old city and so it was very conveniently located between the many things to see. However, there was still a lot of walking to be done and with the four kids in tow it became clear that we would need to modify our plans some what. Negotiating buying tickets and getting to places takes time and then you need to know when things are open! The Colosseum is open till 7pm but they shut the gates at 6pm so on the first day we walked there but couldn’t get in!
The walk back through the narrow medieval streets and famous piazza's with gelato’s in hand was lovely though. Standouts were The Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, Piazza Navona with Bernini’s great fountain sculptures! Spotted a the modern day Roman centurian at the Trevi fountain - obese, smoking and with mobile phone in hand.
Genevieve’s Word: On the first evening we went to the Piazza Navona and we saw this very funny finger puppet show. In the puppet show a puppet of Michael Jackson and he did the moonwalk. The puppets’ legs moved so naturally. Then we went to this huge fountain. It was called The Trevi Fountain. It was the biggest and most beautiful fountain I’ve seen so far and probably will be the best one I’ll see in the whole trip.
Kailin’s Word: Today we arrived at Rome after a two and a half hour train trip and settled into our cosy little apartment. It was nice with a little courtyard type place out the back. We walked all the way to the Colosseum to find it was all ready closed. We had to walk all the way back again, but it wasn’t too bad; we passed through a Piazza were there were a lot of buskers, singing, dancing and posing, and near the end we bought a gelato and had a look at the magnificent Trevi Fountain. Water gushed out in turrets, and, unlike any other fountains I have seen on this trip, the water didn’t stream upwards then downwards. It was more like ten small rivers that met in a big pool at the bottom. There were amazing sculptures as well.
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