First off, we'll start with the crazy drivers. HOLY MOLY. Traffic in Rome is alot like New York- without the traffic regulations. People just drive and park where they want.
These cars are actually parking on the median. There really aren't "parking lots" in the city. And the streets are so narrow, they have no choice but to just park up on the curb.
Oh yeah, and their gas stations? Just right there on the sidewalk! If you want to get gas, you block an entire lane of traffic.
This is the best picture I got of the Coliseum. More on that later.... :(
Trevi Fountain (It looks exactly like the one in Vegas....well, the one in Vegas looks just like the real one in Rome I guess I should say)
It's really hard to get a picture of yourself when you can't trust anybody to steal your camera!
Wishing to return to Rome!
Pretty sure I would hate to have this job. Like I said, people are crazy drivers!
The Roman Forum. It would be impossible to post all of the pictures I took here. I seriously took over 100 pictures just on this site alone. It was incredible. The amount of DETAIL that went into EVERY SINGLE piece of architecture is just unreal. And the fact that some of it is still standing after thousands of years is unbelievable. Everything back then was just so MASSIVE. The Romans did nothing small. Everything was grand. Why they needed these buildings so big, I have no idea. But they are beautiful.
The Arc of Titus! I felt special.
And that concludes what I have of Rome.....where is the Coliseum? Where is Vatican City? The answer to that question is they are still trapped in a $30 disposable camera. I got a little camera happy in The Roman Forum. So much so, that LITERALLY, as soon as we walked up to the Coliseum, my camera died. I just about cried. I tried every trick I could think of to at least just get ONE picture of it up close and personal. But I got nadda. So after we toured the Coliseum (which was pretty cool. I couldn't understand a word our tour guide said, so I really missed out on alot of information about it), we walked out and of course there were little street vendors trying to sell little over priced Colisum trinkets. One of the vendors had some disposable cameras. For 15 euros. I had no choice. We still had to go to St. Peter's Basilica and there was no way I wasn't getting any pictures of it. I have yet to get them developed. I'm pretty worried about how they are going to turn out. St. Peter's is one of the oldest cathedral's in the world, full of history, and all I had was a lousy point and shoot film camera. It still makes me want to cry. I'm hoping that when I go to get it developed, there is some way I can put the images on a CD so that I can post them. I'll let you know how it turns out....
Up next, the Amalfi Coast and Pompeii! My favorite part of the trip!
