This morning we went to Rome via public transport. I actually thought we were staying near the metro. No. How wrong was I. We stayed in accommodation which is situated in no where and was disgusting. The toilet was running all night so it sounded like someone was showering all knight. Don't forget I was in the lounge and it wasn't separated by another door unlike the other bedrooms. I kept waking up with ants on my pillow as well. I got up and still had no hot water. I just gave up and showered in Alicia's van. Let me just say how cramped up it was. The toilet wasn't even accessible because I had to dislocate my body to fit in it, and I'm small. So that was interesting. Also there were two toilet paper roles next to the toilet and all we had was some folder paper crap which could only sit on the broken toilet itself. So yeah the shower was feral. It flooded like a goddamn pool and took forever to drain.
However this place had free wifi so you know....sweet.
We then went to use the train which was more like some old ass double decker crap that was really old. It took us to the metro which was slow as hell but we finally got to the metro. At least the first metro train was air conditioned and roomy. I can't say the same for the second. It was full of graffiti, crowded and had no air con.
However we finally got up to see thee Colosseum. It was amazing! It was like seeing the MCG but obviously much cooler. Actually maybe I shouldn't compare it because the only thing that died at the MCG was Melbourne's hopes of a premiership cup.
The best advice we got was to go through the forum and get our ticket there because it allowed us access to both places for €11. So we did that and honestly we saved easily 2 hours in line for the colosseum. There we met up with some people from the group and everyone mixed up ad around. Renata, Justin and I chilled for a bit and took photos inside there and later made our way around. We bumped into a lot of people so when we left Zoe needed to use the bathroom and said she will find us outside. That was impossible. We lost her for the entire day. She didn't get back to the camp site until 8pm which was an hour after dinner by that stage and we got worried because we couldn't get in contact with her via mobile phones.
That aside we had lunch. That was a nightmare because getting the metro was busy and hot. Then we got to a place and they didn't understand us but agreed to us having free drinks. However they never honored this and just ended up charging us for drinks and charged me a different price to what was advertised. I cracked it ad so did everyone else. We just left the exact amount and left. The lady serving came running up to check we paid the right amount as we walked off, which was funny because she was so stressed from the shit we gave her.
After lunch we went to see the Cappuccini monks. They're basically the remains of monks decorated into several rooms. Over 4,000 monks. It was a bit weird, sick and confronting. But totally worth it. Again a rude ass American mother was behind us trying to get photos with her phone and a security guard came by and told her off. Her daughter told her not to do it as well, but she acted like she knew nothing of it. But at the end the lady in the gift shop told them off even though she didn't see it happen. Creeeeeeepy.
We hit the Spanish Steps and got photos, again my famous pose.
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