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- Aug 1, 2023, 7:45pm
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- ItalyLatiumRomeCampitelliBaths of Titus41°53’30” N 12°29’33” E
Day 23 - Rome
August 1, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today we got up at 6am, packed the remaining stuff and headed for the port of Forio to get in the ferry back to Naples.
Once in Naples we caught the metro to central station and then jumped on a fast train to Rome.
These trains get up to speeds of 299km per hour. Little did we know we got a little food box which consisted of natural water, pineapple juice, a bag of some sort of crisps & a marmalade croissant. We had brought a yoghurt pack from the supermarket but we were happy to get the extra food.
Once in Rome we had to take the Metro to our BnB, anyone knows me I love the metro here…
We survived the metro trip checked in early to our BnB.
We ventured out for lunch to Trastevere. I was quite excited for Trastevere, little did I know it’s dead during the day and comes alive at night!
We got lunch had a walk around then head back to the room so Katie could have a nap and I did some research for Rome.
Once awake we decided we needed a break from pasta, pizza and pastry’s. we headed to the famous Spagla McDonalds!
I must say, it was delicious and a nice break from Italian food!
We had a walk around going past the Spanish steps, Trevi Fountain, Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II, Roman forum and Palatine Hill, We ended up in-front of the colosseum at this point. We took some pictures from a point I learnt of TikTok existed then headed down to go for a night time tour of the Colosseum.
We brought the tour in Italian so the only thing I learnt was we walked through to the underground the same way the gladiators did from across the road which I didn’t realise was a structure that used to be there! We brought the tour in Italian as it was 25 euro for the tour each from the actual website or 180NZD each for English from third party tour providers and I just want us to be there with no one there.
The tour was fantastic, took us all the way through underground then back up to level one. Only your tour was there at the time of roughly 25people and then the next group would be seen coming down below as you were finishing.
We ended the night with braving the metro, happy to say we survived again!Read more
Traveler Oh the happiness on Katie’s face - Maccas.
So say all of us [Charles]
Traveler Katie in her ‘happy place’.