We have a housing angel, so it seems. The Colosseum and other magnificent parts of ancient Rome was within walking distance from our hotel. My first full day in Rome couldn't get any better. How does one top a view like this? I had to remind myself this actually existed several thousand years ago and they are still here. My Italian friends, Freddy and Andrea, reminded me over a dinner of pasta Grecia and red wine, that this is not Disneyland, and that the ancient Romans walked the same streets that I did. If the cobblestone steps could speak, indeed, what fascinating stories they could tell.
The lines going inside the triumvirate of the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and Palatine hill, was manageable but our Roma pass made it very easy to enter and to have more time scouring the area inside rather than staying in line to buy an admission ticket. Due to our eagerness to cover as much of historic Rome that we can, my feet were crying out in pain by early afternoon. It did not help that I wore boots in walking around Amsterdam the day earlier. But that's another story.
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