We arrived white knuckled but in one piece to our hotel, opposite the train station. The hotel has a rather unique feature of mood lighting, and you can choose your color, still haven't worked out why and apart from that our room is good.
I had pre booked a night time colosseum tour for 9 pm, so we thought we would go and get some sustenance, Carbonaras all round and best ever cafe latte!
After lunch we headed to the supermarket, I love foreign supermarkets and I could browse for hours, but hours we didn't have, so a bottle of red, some beer and a packet of fonzies ( Italian for twisties??) later we left.
Tonight was colosseum night and I had myself prepared, I had printed out the google map directions, supposed to be 2 kms and about 25 mins so off we went. Well I think we missed the first turn, so after walking probably 15 mins, we decided to get the map out, just like the ancient Romans used to do, we got ourselves back on track and 45 mins later we arrived.
The tour was awesome and being a night tour not many people were there as it wasn't open to the public. Just amazing and you can completely imagine what it was like in its day, just the fact that it is still standing after 2000 years is a credit to its builders. I mean our house is about 40 years old and it will be lucky if it sees another 10.
Now back to google maps, we thought perhaps if we tried the opposite on the way home it would be fine, well it wasn't, we missed the first street again and that was it but this time it was about an hour and about 4kms. Neither of us could read the maps properly because we didn't have our night vision on, a man told us it was about 800 mtres up the road, it was 1800! Finally we made it, and we haven't been able to get off the bed since.
Today's Learnings: Google your maps are crap, and can't be trusted backwards or forwards...something you need to work on!
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