Day 15: Rome, Italy

We are in Rome!

Our Airbnb is so nice, the sights are amazing and the food is delicious.

We got to Rome at noon, brought our bags to the Airbnb and took off to see the Colosseum and Ancient Rome which is only a 20 minute walk from our Airbnb. We got a tour that included both areas so it was a lot of fun. We got some pretty interesting facts:

1. Ancient Rome was originally a lot higher in some areas as they built over the originally standing buildings. They excavated it to show the true Ancient Rome so the "newer" buildings' doorsteps are much higher than the ground.

2. If you were convicted of a crime and you were Roman, you had to fight. If you won, you were free and if you lost, well you were dead...

3. They would fight other men or animals. When they fought animals, it was 3-to-1, and the chance of survival was apparently 30%.

4. There was a "vomit" staircase in the Colosseum for when fights broke out in the stands and they had to empty out the venue. They called it that because the 80,000 people could empty out in less than 18 minutes and the staircase would look like it was "vomiting" people.

5. The Colosseum used to have all equal standing walls, however an earthquake made large parts of the walls collapse, thus giving its shape today.

They were pretty interesting tours, but by the end, we were really excited for food (what a surprise). We found this cute restaurant by our place and had delicious carbonara pasta and a plate of meatballs. We got back pretty late to our Airbnb and crashed out as we have to be up at 5:30 am tomorrow to head to our Vatican tour.Read more