It all started at 3:10 in the morning. We had a sleepy trip off to Vienna airport. Only drama was being asked if our final destination was Frankfurt, eh? We landed the window seats and had a nice flight that seemed to end on the world’s longest runway. No passport checks, we got our bags with no worries and followed the signs to the train. E22 later and we were on our way. Ah, bustling Rome. Very, very busy. We walked out of the main train station and found our street was right there. Some 200m up the road was out accommodation, the Beehive. We paid up and stashed our bags all by the early time of 11:00. Very nice digs indeed.

Then it was back down to the station to get our 7 day metro pass, a quick survey of the map and off we went. After walking a little distance Zuz said, “should we really see the biggest thing first up?” We took 2 more steps, looked up the street to the left and there it was. The Colosseum: ) Very impressive, very big, old and lots of people. So up the street we went. As it was Sunday, the main drag was closed off and we walked up and down it with hordes of other travellers and tourists. We went past the Roman Forums and then back around the Colosseum and sat down for some people watching as surprisingly so, we were fairly tired. Sustenance required, in the form of what else, a pizza. When in Rome…… It was BEE-UTE-A-FULL!

We walked back down the road again to the ‘typewriter’, around and up Capitol Hill, now overlooking the Roman Forums and near the statue of Romulus. By this stage we were walking like zombies and as our room would now be ready we headed to the hostel via the metro and treated ourselves to a very, very nice ice cream. Why do all the really nice things in life have to be so far away from home? Got back into the room and the plan was to have a small afternoon siesta until about 4:00pm. We woke up at 10! So we turned over and went back to sleep until the morning.