Old Rome

We took off in the morning to go see the colder part of Rome. This included the Coliseum and the Roman Forum. When we got off at the Coliseum train stop and walked out of the train station, the Coliseum was right there. It was huge. We were able to skip the lines with our Roma Pass and spent a couple hours walking throughout the Coliseum.

Em and I love ‘Gladiator’ (one of our favorite movies) which made this place all the more interesting (even though I am sure ‘Gladiator’ is filled with inaccuracies). We probably read more of the information posters here than we did anywhere else – especially because they had an entire section devoted to information about the Gladiators – fascinating. Again, it is incredible to think about how a structure this large was built with such little technology and the fact that it still stands.
The Forum was less grand and exciting but he audio tour we had was more interesting.

We walked along the actual roads where Cesar walked and learned a lot about the history or Rome – how became so dominant and more interestingly – how it fell so hard. It was also interesting to learn all about how Rome adopted Christianity and how that impacted the spread of Christianity.


That day was by far the hottest day of our trip so far so after the Forum Em and I got some Gelato to cool us down. For the second day in a row we got bread and cheese for lunch.
Our last place we decided to see was the Roman Museum. It actually was really boring but it was air conditioned – so we didn’t care. We actually stayed there for a while because it felt so good.
That night we ate at a pizza place many regarded as the best in Rome, called Befetto’s. It was very hot and humid and jam packed but the pizza was very different and memorable. We got a pizza with sausage, onion, peppers, cheese, tomatoes, and fried egg. The egg was different and kind of weird (tasted like a pizza with an egg on it?) but good.
We finished the night doing a night walking tour from our guide book and it was a blast.

It took us through multiple plaza’s that had street performers and painters and lots of music. In one of the plaza’s the street performer grabbed Tiffany and had her stand in the middle of about 200 people for an act. Then a couple minutes later, he pretended he was driving a motorcycle (making sounds) and he came and grabbed me and had me get on back. He waited for me to do something so finally I put my arms around his waist (that is what one would do on a motorcycle right?) and the immediately through my arms back and everyone laughed.

He then went and got a woman to be on his cycle – it was funny. Later we got Gelato at ‘the best Gelato in Rome’ (by not only our guidebook but a pedestrian we met) and it was great!