ROMA 1/4 -- the Italy Trip Day 2

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The second day, nice weather and sunshine woke me up in the morning 8am.

This is my breakfast, palm-size pizza. I bought six of them. Yummy and cheap.

Today my top and first itinerary was to visit the Vatican city, the smallest state, or country, in the world. I woke up early and tried to be an early bird to stay away from the stupid queue. However...

it had already had a long queue there in front of the entrance. I didn't want to ruin my mood just at the beginning of the day and my other itinerary, I skipped this spot.

Next: the Vatican cathedral, Basilica di San Pietro!

Crap!! Another queue. But the Piazza San Pietro is really magnificent!

There's a Vatican post office in the piazza, the only post office in Vatican city and of course it delivers your post card with Vatican stamps. So this is the best place to go in Vatican actually, and no need to stay in queue (important.)

Police horses

 Walking straight down from the front of the Vatican city, here we come to the Castel Sant Angelo.

the Castel

Turn around to see the Piazza San Pietro

The angle standing at the top!

Up to now, I was out of water. I NEED WATER. I was one percent lacking of water in my body, 69%.

Smile :)

Supplement completed. I kept walking for the Piazza Navona, which was a bit hidden in the street blocks thus was hard to find. So, once I found it, I felt like I won in the treasure hunting game.

I really enjoyed the band playing in the Piazza.

Not far away from Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the temple for all gods built in 27 B.C., still stands still there in Roma, but handicapped. :(

Hot girls sun-bathing in front of the Pantheon. They were really hot.

It was about 25 degree in Roma, no kidding. The weather was indeed nice and so my mood was. Especially when there were a bunch of hot, young European and American girls around you. This is definitely where I park my car. Ok, back to Roma, I next went to Piazza Venezia and Palazzo Venezia, which is built in 1910 in memory of the unification of Italy in 1870.

At the top of the Piazza, I could overlook the best tourism area of Roma, the Mercati Traianei, the Foro Romano, and the Colosseo.

Unfortunately, the ticket is needed to see the Foro Romano, the ruin of the city center of ancient Roma since approx. 600B.C., for €12, but good news is that, it's the same ticket for the Colosseo. They have discount for European citizen, so I thought I could have the discount by showing my Polish resident card; however, the ticket seller didn't read Polish and regarded that as a piece of crap. Crap.

Before

After

Now it was about 5pm only, but I was starving coz I had only 6 palm-size pizza in the morning at 8 all day. I couldn't walk, clear my mind to feel the history of the ruin, even think. Meanwhile, I was eager for peeing as well. So, I quit, and returned back to the host's apartment. Here's how I walked, from Vatican city, about 7 km.

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I bought an Italian beer to reward myself, and a small, expensive sandwich. This was not the end of the day. I went out again at 9pm to explore the night life in Roma, BUT, I got lost in the center of the Roma and saw nothing besides railway. D_mn. I ruined my night. I could have stayed in the couch and used the super fast wireless internet provided by my kind English host. And the most sucky thing was that when I went back (at 11pm, finally), I ordered a salami and eggplant pizza. It turned out that the package in my hand was salami and eggplant without pizza bread. F_ck that!