Day 68 - My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius

So today I woke up in ROME!!! And first time I had to do was get a bus then two trains, then a taxi to my other hostel more central to the city than the campsite (It's actually in an amazing location) I thought it was going to be a huge pain, and I was a bit stressed about it, but it was actually really easy.

I checked into the hostel, then pretty quickly had to make my way to the walking tour I had booked.

It ended up being a REALLY great tour, the guide told us a lot of history (that I was KIND of aware of because our bus guide Marty was pretty awesome) but still awesome.

We visited the place where Rome was founded, and learned about their crazy beliefs that it was founded by two sons of Mars who were meant to be killed but a she wolf nursed them. (Just small fact, this image of two boys under a wolf 'suckling' is ALL over Rome, literally, I saw it on the side of a garbage bin... weeeeeird)

Then cat palace, which is basically where all the cats in Rome live. Cats are citizens here. They have more right than I do in this city... Mussolini was a crazy son-a-bitch.

We also went to the Parthenon, it's actually quite incredible, they don't know how it was built, and apparently if we attempted to build it today, we would fail miserably. Romans were smart.

We also went to the ruins of the Forum. That place seemed pretty amazing and huge. Would have been amazing.

We also visited a bunch of other sites that probably don't mean much to anyone reading this except the Colosseum. We didn't go in, but I got some amazing photos of it. That place is amazing, and I LOVE the historical stories of it.


After the tour, myself, our busabout guide Marty and a bunch of other girls from busabout went out for dinner. I wasn't too hungry because we had stopped on the walking tour to get some pasta and gelati. (SOOO GOOD!) So i just had a bruschetta (Mario's is way better...)

Then he took us on yet another small guided tour. We went to the Trevi fountain, Making friends with a tour guide is super useful lol.

After that I walked all the way back to my hostel, took me about 40 minutes because one of the roads was blocked. Lol but I made it.

Today was a really awesome day, I learnt SOOO much and I think I've kind of fallen in love with this city.

Things that made me happy today; The total messiness of Rome, ancient ruins next to peoples houses.

Things that made me sad today; The heat I had to walk around in :S