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April 3, 2025
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Arrival
April 3, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Lovely taxi ride from the airport through Rome with the driver pointing out all the sites in Italian!! Straight out to find food! Wandered south over the river to Nonna Gina. Lovely food and cocktails! Finished off with a wander to the Pantheon and Plaza Navona to aid digestion!Read more
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Vatican part 1
April 4, 2025 in Vatican City ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We nearly did not do the Vatican guided tour but so glad we did. Paulina was our guide for a group of 8. She was fab and had so much to say. The museums, of which there are many, include hundreds of sculptures and paintings. They have 30,000 people a day through here, just think of the cash the pope is raking in!! There were no photos allowed in the Sistine Chapel, but it was such a massive build up that by the time we finally arrived there, it was slightly disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, it was amazing and it took MA four years to complete, a stunning achievement. We loved the little gems we were told about people added to paintings etc. All told, a fabulous morning.Read more
TravelerGreat.Did you buy a picture book of the Chapel?
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Vatican part 2
April 4, 2025 in Vatican City ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
I decided that I had so many paintings of the fabulous ceilings I would do a post just with them .
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Rome - St Peter’s Square
April 4, 2025 in Vatican City ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
After leaving the museums and re entering Italy, we had to walk around the thick walls of Vatican City to get to St Peter’s Square. It had a lovely serene atmosphere, considering it was really busy.
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Rome - St Peter’s Square to Trevi Founta
April 4, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Leaving St Peter’s Square we wandered along the River Tiber and across a bridge to Piazza Popolo. Then on to the Spanish steps, but not before a well earned pit stop at a lovely tea shop. After the steps we continued on to the Trevi Fountain, then a massive church via limoncello tasting and other shops! What a fab day.Read more
Traveler Great photos glad you are enjoying it xx
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Rome - Pantheon
April 5, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Up bright and early to get to the Pantheon when it opened. Luckily a very short queue. Wow, what a structure! A massive feat of engineering now, let alone when originally constructed. It was originally a pagan temple which was abandoned for 200 years until Christianity took over and it was restored and developed. It contains the tombs of famous emperors including Vittorio Emanuel and Umberto as well as artists such as Raphael. Because of the pagan roots, many artists wanted to be buried there. Afterwards we found a lovely cafe for breakfast.Read more
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Rome - Colosseum etc.
April 5, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Approaching the Colosseum from a distance, it was just as spectacular as when we first visited nine years ago with the boys. That day included a full tour of the Colosseum, so this time we just walked around the outside. Then it was time for lunch, delicious pizzas and red wine! After lunch we walked up a long hill to the Papal Basicalla of Saint Mary Major, which was the destination for many pilgrims this weekend, then onward to the train station and Piazza della Republica. We were going to visit another church but it was closed, so we wandered through the back streets via Four Fountains Road, a crossroads with a fountain on each corner, to Piazza Navonna for a well earned gelato.Read more
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Rome - Evening Food Tour
April 5, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We met our guide in Campo de Fiori for an evening food tour. It was excellent. We started with cured meat and wine, then fried rice balls called Suppli (tomato sauce, rice and mozzarella deep fried). We then ate white (plain focaccia) and red (with tomato sauce) pizza. We found out that pizza is sold by weight at takeouts. We also had a very nice blonde beer. We moved on to the Jewish quarter and learned that 2,000 Jewish people were taken from there one night in 1943 and only 16 returned. There are brass plaques outside the houses of those who died. Here we had deep fried artichokes. We walked past the synagogue and theatre ruins. Finally we finished with ice cream. We walked 10 miles today!Read more
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Rome - Trastevere etc.
April 6, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
A gentle walk this morning, we said!! We started in the Jewish ghetto for breakfast with delicious scrambled eggs and coffee. Then we decided to explore some more. We started at Campo de Fiori at the market then wandered over the Tiber to Trastevere. We caught the end of mass at Basilica de Santa Maria. A beautiful church and heavily gilded ceiling. Then a stop for coffee and Aperol Spritz in the sunshine.
Winding our way back over the Tiber we passed the Pantheon and looked for a quiet place for lunch just up from there. Taverna Rotondo, what a find! Both the ravioli and the fettuccine bolognaise were fab and tiramisu the best yet. Then it was back to Piazza Argentina to pick up the luggage. This was actually the place where Julius Caesar was killed! That’s it, a wonderful short break in one of Europe’s finest capitals, grazie Roma ❤️Read more
TravelerLooks like the most beautiful place ♥️
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Trip end
April 6, 2025