It's been a few days since we could get online, so I've got quite a number of backlogged tales to record here. Of course it is again late and I need to get to bed, so I will try to hammer out an abbreviated account of each of the last few days. Here goes monday (in Rome, Italy.) We flew from Berlin to Rome on Monday
morning on EasyJet air (one of the discount European airlines.) We then took a bus from the airport to the middle of the city and hauled all our bags over to the train station where we knew we would be able to check them so we wouldn't have to carry them around all day. After waiting in a crazy long line at the bag check (right), we were significantly less weighed down and we were on our way.
We took the Roman subway a few stops south and went to check out the site of these old roman ruins of a bunch of palaces and other buildings. Basically all
this stuff, only a lot more run down. We went to that site first because the tickets for those were the same as the tickets for the Colosseum, but the line was much shorter to get in to the other ruins. I can't say I know exactly what everything we saw was, but I can say it was totally cool to see it all. I must have taken the best of the pictures there with my film camera, so you'll have to take my word for it. While we were there we heard a bunch of Billy Joel music coming from some speakers in the distance. We thought that was kinda funny. Later, we asked some Americans that we saw to take a picture of us (left) and they told us that it wasn't just music we were hearing, it was Billy Joel doing a sound check for his free show that night in front of the Colosseum. Our plans then changed for the evening. Next we headed over to the Colosseum, tickets in hand, and skipped the huge line to buy tickets there (thank you
Rick Steves.) I would have to say that this was the highlight of the afternoon. It's pretty amazing. So much so, I think it deserves some big pictures.
While we were there, we saw the stage they had set up for the concert later that evening. You can see the view of the stage from the Colosseum to the right. After that, we went on through Rome checking out some other sites, including one of the big fountians, a big obelisk that the Romans stole from the Egyptians, and the Pantheon. Aw what the heck, I'll throw in some big pics of those too.
We then headed to our hostel to check in and cool off a bit (by the way, it was ridiculously hot while we did all this stuff.) We found out that could be kinda a fun place to be, but it was pretty far out from Rome so not very convenient. Note to travelers: if you try to save money by booking really cheap places that are far away from where you really want to be, you may end up spending all that saved money (plus a bunch of time) getting to and from that location. That evening we headed out to see Billy Joel and Brian Adams live in front of the Colosseum. There were quite a few other people there, as well. It was tough to get good pics in that light, but I managed a couple decent ones (out of many) it seems.
From there we ate dinner at a local restaurant and took a cab home.
It's been a few days since we could get online, so I've got quite a number of backlogged tales to record here. Of course it is again late and I need to get to bed, so I will try to hammer out an abbreviated account of each of the last few days. Here goes monday (in Rome, Italy.) We flew from Berlin to Rome on Monday 
morning on EasyJet air (one of the discount European airlines.) We then took a bus from the airport to the middle of the city and hauled all our bags over to the train station where we knew we would be able to check them so we wouldn't have to carry them around all day. After waiting in a crazy long line at the bag check (right), we were significantly less weighed down and we were on our way. 
We took the Roman subway a few stops south and went to check out the site of these old roman ruins of a bunch of palaces and other buildings. Basically all this stuff, only a lot more run down. We went to that site first because the tickets for those were the same as the tickets for the Colosseum, but the line was much shorter to get in to the other ruins. I can't say I know exactly what everything we saw was, but I can say it was totally cool to see it all. I must have taken the best of the pictures there with my film camera, so you'll have to take my word for it. While we were there we heard a bunch of Billy Joel music coming from some speakers in the distance. We thought that was kinda funny. Later, we asked some Americans that we saw to take a picture of us (left) and they told us that it wasn't just music we were hearing, it was Billy Joel doing a sound check for his free show that night in front of the Colosseum. Our plans then changed for the evening. Next we headed over to the Colosseum, tickets in hand, and skipped the huge line to buy tickets there (thank you Rick Steves.) I would have to say that this was the highlight of the afternoon. It's pretty amazing. So much so, I think it deserves some big pictures.
While we were there, we saw the stage they had set up for the concert later that evening. You can see the view of the stage from the Colosseum to the right. After that, we went on through Rome checking out some other sites, including one of the big fountians, a big obelisk that the Romans stole from the Egyptians, and the Pantheon. Aw what the heck, I'll throw in some big pics of those too.
We then headed to our hostel to check in and cool off a bit (by the way, it was ridiculously hot while we did all this stuff.) We found out that could be kinda a fun place to be, but it was pretty far out from Rome so not very convenient. Note to travelers: if you try to save money by booking really cheap places that are far away from where you really want to be, you may end up spending all that saved money (plus a bunch of time) getting to and from that location. That evening we headed out to see Billy Joel and Brian Adams live in front of the Colosseum. There were quite a few other people there, as well. It was tough to get good pics in that light, but I managed a couple decent ones (out of many) it seems. 
From there we ate dinner at a local restaurant and took a cab home.
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