Taylor's travels

Woke up a little earlier this morning and set out for the colosseum. I had a map of the city and by walking it only took me 10-15 minutes. I arrived in good timing and took some photos of the outside of the colosseum, WOW what an amazing building! The outside is gorgeous! They say that they have done lots of reconstructiong to make the outside look nicer. The photos I have are not what it originally used to look like. However the inside has not been re done and you can tell because it looks very old and it's basically falling apart.

I got in line for tickets to get inside and the line was literally almost all the way around the colosseum! They said it would probably be an hour and a half to 2 hours just waiting in line! I had passed a little kiosk beside the colosseum selling tours to get inside so I went back there and bought one of those. Ya it was a little more expensive however I got to skip the line and go straight in. And I also got a guided tour and learned a lot that I didn't already know!

The inside of the colosseum was nice, crazy to think that it once held shows of tigers eating people! And people watched for fun!? My goodness how times have changed. After the colosseum I went over to the roman forum which is directly beside the colosseum. It's massive and there was lots of ground to cover!

The forum was great, got to see all the old pillars and buildings that once stood there. I also didn't know that's where Caesar was killed (Inside the forum), then More walking around inside the forum for a few more hours. When I was leaving I realized I didn't have breakfast or lunch and it was already 2pm so I went to a little Italian restaurant and grabbed some lunch.

After lunch I made my way again on foot with my map to the Trevi fountain. Only about a 10 minute walk from the colosseum. Sadly when I got there it was under construction. So you couldn't throw any coins in, there wasn't even water in the fountain. They had a big plexi glass wall up a few feet before the fountain even began so it wasn't the full "Trevi fountain" experience I had hoped for.

After the fountain it was after 3pm and I had been outside walking for more than 6 hours now so I was ready for a break. Walked back to the hostel and sat in the common room for awhile just relaxing. I cannot wait to get home and sit in a house where there is air conditioning. My god I don't know how these locals do it all summer!

I met another traveller in my room from holland, he arrived after 6 and we both hadn't eaten so we went for supper together and then walked around the colosseum and the forum at night. Rome is very pretty at night because they light up everything!

After my long day I decided to call it quits and head back. Another day of Rome tomorrow and then it's off to Greece!