Rome Day 2

After investigating reviews on the web we organized a Colosseum, Forum and Palatine Hill guided walk with Dario. There was a maximum of ten and a minimum of  two people. As it turned out there was only the two of us.

Dario lived up to the glowing reviews, his experience proved invaluable in navigating us through the enormous queues forming early in the morning at the Colosseum, even the skip the queue lines needed to be approached with his knowledge.

He was very informative about what we were seeing through the three venues, and as there was only two of us we could have a real conversation with him on a whole range of topics, rather than just being talked at. He was very friendly and obviously loves what he does.

He took a photo of us when we on top of the Palatine Hill overlooking the Forum.

After we finished the tour we decide to find somewhere to eat, but we didn’t want to eat too close to the main tourist area. Peter wanted to see the River Tiber again so after a couple of false starts we found our way to the river. Luckily our 24 hour transit pass let us hop on and off as many buses and metro trains as we wanted.

When we crossed the bridge we found ourselves in the same place that we had something to eat in in 2010. The café was still there, but we wanted pizza and not fruit salad this time. We found pizza a couple of doors down.

Feeling refreshed we set off on the second half of our busy day in Rome.

Claire wanted to visit the Villa Borghese, a large park in the north of the city. She was especially interested in seeing Pincio’s Water Clock.

The park was a lovely spot to get out of the heat for a while.

We then found our way to the Spanish Steps, via the Piazza del Popolo. Next are 2 photos where you get to play “Where’s Peter” and “Where’s Claire”.

Despite all of Peter’s protestations about not letting Claire throw another coin in the Trevi Fountain, we somehow found ourselves there and managed to take a selfie!