The Night Tour

When we arrived in Rome, Nic and I made an effort to stay up to sync our clocks to Italy. In bed at 8, up for a bit here and there, did some blogging around 3am then back to bed...until 11am. We woke to rain but our hotel loaned us a pair of umbrella`s. We made it to the restaurant near the corner for some amazing Spaghetti Carbonara. But the wind had picked up and the sturdy umbrellas would only do so much. We returned to the hotel, determined to stay awake. 

We woke up again around 5pm. Thinking back to one of the last things I had said in my previous post, we went to the subway station and bought day passes. Mapping out a route of things to see at night, we'd spend the 6 hours traveling around Rome seeing what it had to offer lit up. 

We started at the farthest point and worked our way back towards the Coliseum near where our hotel is. 

Stop 1. St. Peters Square - Vatican. 

Fountain #1

 Fountain #2

St. Peters Basilica, the front view from the square. On Wednesday we do a tour of the Vatican Museums

 Looking outward towards the square. Yesterday was Sunday, so I guess they had a service here.

 Back onto the train we stopped at Piazza Del Popolo where the DeVinci museum is. uh-huh and onto the next thing.

 Hopping back on the train we visited the Piazza de Spagna or the Spanish steps. Nice views but some amazing Gelato to be had at shop near by. Nic and I had paid 15 euros for our pre travel dinner that evening. 16 euro's to 2 Gelato cones.Somewhere there is a meme about priorities but Nic and I just toasted to the good life and ate our Gelato on the steps. 

 Walked up the steps. Took a few pics and then it was time to move on.

 Back to Spagna station, one stop ahead to the Barberini station and a 10 minute walk to the Trevi fountain for our 2nd visit.

 After that we switched subway lines and went to the Coliseum.

 The Arch de Constantine.

 At the end of our visit here we ran into some trouble finding our way out. After some wrong turns we ended up near our hotel and got our bearings. Wanting to finish our mission we headed to the Piazza de Venezia again for visit 2. One picture later we were on our way back.

 But had to take some pics of the amphitheater on the way.

Tomorrow we use our passes to the Coliseum.