The Eternal City Monday 5th

An early start this morning, 7:30 on the coach headed for The Vatican. An advantage of being in a tour group is not having to queue at these places. The queues are horrendous. A local guide took us through the Vatican Museum which holds things of incredible age and would be impossible to place a value on it. We only saw a small,part of the amazing collections.
Then it was into the Sistine Chapel which has to be seen to be described, despite the crowds of people there was no noise. Amazing to think we were standing in a place of such history. Then it was into St Peter's Basilica, which is again awe-inspiring.
More history then, onto The Colosseum. To think these places were built so many years ago and to try and imagine what went on there is staggering.
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Back to the hotel, then, and Glen and I took a taxi to an Apple store to see what I was doing wrong with the iPad as we had not been able to connect to the Internet. Problem now sorted and hope to keep up to date with the blog. We then went on a walking tour with the group into the old area of Rome. We had thought at one stage not to do this as we had spent some time there before joining the tour, but were glad we did as we had our local guide who took as to places we hadn't seen before and explained things as we went. Dinner was again at Piazza Navone. Back to the hotel to fall into bed.