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We hit Rome that night and went on a quick tour of the city on the bus. There is one word that best describes Rome at night. WOW Massive monuments that have stood for centuries lit up at night to show them in all their glory & splendour. Afterwards we kicked back at the hotel for drinks, card games and a chat with Deano. It was really interesting hearing where he had been as he pretty much as all of Europe covered and the only parts he doesn't are at war at the moment so i don't see him going there anytime soon.

It was an early rise for everyone as we had to hit the Vatican city before the crowds to be sure we got into the place in this lifetime. The pope was meant to give his little speech but apparently his a soft cock and can't handle the heat so left us for Austria to cool off... Soft popey... soft. But this also meant that the line wouldn't be as long since he wasn't talking, it still took us 2hrs to get in!!!

Once in we got a guided tour of the worlds most priceless collection of artwork. All the "ninja turtle" artists were there as well as every other big name you can think of. Anyone who was anybody had some art work at the Vatican city. The halls were chock full of art work, statues & more. Even the buildings themselves ended up covered in paintings and mosaics. The floors the walls even the roofs had paintings on them, some were even trippy enough to have been painted to look 3D with frames around the pictures... very trippy.

Walking into the Sistine Chapel was just amazing. The entire place while small is covered wall to floor with paintings. Massive paintings everywhere, roof, walls even the floor has marble mosaics in it. Just amazing to think it was all done by a handful of people the roof was done by Michelangelo alone.

After getting through the Vatican we also visited St Pauls Cathedral. WOW what an enormous church in every way. Massively high roof with dome's everywhere and they are all painted with depiction's out of the bible. Its very wide and long with small area's on the side for small worships and alike. Just one big impressive church.

After getting through the Vatican we headed into Rome to see the rest of the impressive buildings that Rome has to offer. But first up was lunch and lots of gelati to get us ready for an afternoon of walking. The gelati in Italy was not the crap we get here, its more like ice-cream and very very yummy.

First up we hit the "Il Vittoriano" or as the locals call it "the wedding cake" since it looks like a wedding cake and like a wedding cake there isn't much inside. But a very impressive building with some great views from the top of the coliseum & of Rome. After that we visited the Coliseum and that is one impressive building. In its day it could hold 70,000 people and they could have it cleared in 10 mins!!! Personally i think they just let the lions loose in the crowd to get them out quicker. For such an old building its quite impressive when you think about when it was built (0080 AD) and the fact that there was nothing even close to it in the entire world.

From there we walked around Rome seeing a few more of the sites including the church where they made these memorials for the monks out of their bones. Its quite disturbing in a way walking through and seeing so many human bones setup in an artistic fashion. We also visited the trevi fountain, a few more churches, some big squares and lots of other buildings from the glory days of Rome.

That night we were all dead after getting up so early to see the Vatican city. So we had a quite one in the hotel then hit the hay ready for the bus ride to Florence.