my feet have never been so tired

wow! i can't believe how much of antiquity i have seen in the last 13 hours! it's been absolutely phenomenal. john and i got into rome yesterday morning and were completely nackered from a red-eye bus to stansted and an early morning ryan air flight. so, after a bit of a nap we just wandered rome. so today was the adventurous day of sight-seeing like mad!

we started it out with a cafe latte and a brioche chocolata (oh my good- a croissant dipped in nutella- so fucking good!), then headed to the coliseum. wandered in and around- pretty amazing and so big. i can't believe 9000 men died in there in one 100-day stint. anyway, then we were off to the forum where we picked up an amazing guided tour (for free!) from this great american. so much history and fun crammed into 80 minutes. then we wandered up to palatine hill as we attempted to decipher the rick steves' map... then we wandered for some pizza, chilled a bit, then met up for an evening tour of rome including all the major piazzas, the pantheon and the trevi fountain. incredible!


tomorrow we leave for pompeii and try and find a place to stay as we see pompeii, capri (home of the pants) and sorrento. then we're back for a tour of the vatican with our new tour guide friend, florence for two days, the bhorgese gallery and the capitolina gallery, and just some shopping. it's manic, mad but so much fun!

hope all is well in your worlds

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