Yesterday was a travel day. We Took a high speed train from Venice at 10:25 and arrived here at a little after 2. The train was good except when we went through tunnels our ears HURT!! It was really wild but it hurt! I think it was because we were going so fast and the pressure changed in the tunnels. The scenery was quite beautiful.
When we got to Rome we took a cab to the apartment and our landlady was waiting for us. It is a nice apartment with a few glitches. But to get anywhere you have to do a lot of walking and our apartment is on top of one of those "7 hills" upon which Rome was built!
We walked to a restaurant that the landlady had suggested - it was a LONG walk and the food was AWFUL!!! The beer was cold but hardly made up for the rest.
Today we headed off the the Vatican. We were going to buy a metro pass and take a bus but the place did not sell the week long passes so we decided to walk! Luckily it was all downhill and only a little over a mile! All downhill until we got to the Vatican and then we had a staircase of about 72 steps!
The Vatican Museum was very crowded and I have probably seen enough religious pictures to last a lifetime! The building itself was much more interesting to me - it was fantastically beautiful in parts. The tile floors and the painted ceilings! We followed the herds on into the Sistine Chapel - we were packed in like sardines and the guards kept telling everyone not to talk with microphones which was much more disturbing than the hum of the whispering crowds. Then we ate lunch in the cafeteria before leaving. It is really a maze - you get in and then you can't get out! The last part to go out the exit is this really neat spiral staircase.
Then we walked over to St. Peter's and the line to go in there was miles long. Scherry,Chris and Jody opted to stand in line. Lori, Jerry, and I opted for gelato and a taxi ride home!
We have done our laundry which we have to hang outside to dry!
Just walked to the grocery and of course it is well down the hill so we had to walk back up carrying groceries - certainly limits what you buy!
Here are some pics
Scherry and Chris walking up the gazillion steps to the Vatican.
Vatican Museum ceilings.
Looking up the spiral staircase.
Swiss Guard
Our laundry drying on the balcony!
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