Day 21:Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

And today's hop on hop off bus tour confirmed that. We decided this morning after last nights google map debacle that we would use someone who actually knew where they were going. Anyway being the tightarses that we are we opted for the cheaper tour ( gives us an extra 5 euro for crap souvenirs) which although good wasn't as descriptive/informative as we liked, so we drove past a lot of spectacular sights we had no idea what they were. Here's one!

Obviously some were recognisable like the colosseum. Seriously this city would have been absolutely amazing back then. Finally my year 8 and 9 Latin classes are making sense. 

We alighted the bus at the Fontana Di Trevi, which was probably what Sandy was looking forward to most, (mine was the colosseum  and I wasn't disappointed ) but when we got there it was covered in scaffolding and not operational. You can sort of imagine what it is like and it is about 10x bigger than I thought but still disappointing.

Please note the hat which was purchased because we bought the cheaper tour. So with the fountain not fountaining we decided to eat our sorrows at a gorgeous little restaurant just around the corner.

After lunch we got back on the bus and headed back to our mood hotel for an afternoon siesta. This evening we went for a walk ( successful) and located some fantastic Italian leather boots for Sandy, so we are now both even in the new shoe dept, 2 each. 

Tomorrow is Vatican day, I hope The Pope isn't as rude as the queen and actually stays in for our visit. We drove past today and he did have a huge number of visitors, but it is Sunday after all.

Souvenir Of The Day:  A calendar of young good looking priests. I mean really, pin up priests, whats next, naughty nuns, monk of the month??