Civitechveccio and Rome 14.8.13

[Ms Sleepy]

We got up at 6.30 this morning as we had a trip booked to Rome. All washed and dressed and down to Parrot Cay we all had the usual Cereal, Juice, Waffles and Bacon with lots of coffee to wash it all down.

We had to meet the tour group at Studio Sea we were given number 22 stickers which was our bus number and we waited until everyone had arrived.

We were on our way at 8 o'clock our guide was a man and he was called Adriano he gave us a talk about Civitechveccio on the bus as we were on our way to Rome.

We arrived in Rome at 9.40 and met our guide she was called Sabrina. We got off the coach and walked to the Trevie Fountain it is very impressive and we all tossed a coin into the fountain.





Nigel and Rebecca had an Ice Cream each and I had a Granita not the best I've ever had they put the slushed ice in the cup and then topped it off with the lemon flavoured syrup.

Then we walked to the Roman Forum which was very interesting and that is where Julius Cesar was buried. This was a very busy place lots of tours going around, and there were queues of people waiting to get in.










After leaving the Roman Forum we walked to the Colossium which wasn't that far but wow what an amazing sight.











After we left the Colossium we got back on the bus and headed to the Vatican. We got off the bus and walked to the Vatican and we were given a voucher each for an ice cream, we were then told we had about 2 and a half hours free time to explore on our own.

We headed off towards the Piazza Nuvono, on our way there we stopped in a little cafe and had lunch. We ordered 1 ham and mushroom Pizza and 1 cheese and tomato with 3 granitas we had strawberry, lemon and orange it cost us 27.00Euros and we all thoroughly enjoyed the meal.





We got to the Piazza Nuvono and had a walk around and took a few photos.







When we had finished at Piazza Nuvono we walked to The Panthenon which wasn't very far we were so glad that we had gone exploring on our own as it was definately worth going to see.





We then had to change our memory card in the camera as I had managed to fill a 4gb card already I had taken 833 photos and also some videos I can't believe it I have never filled a memory card before.

So we headed back towards the vatican as our meeting time was 4.15.

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