Day 74 - Colosseum and bed bugs...

So today, myself and a guy who was in my tent named Ian decided to get up and go do the Colosseum tour.

We missioned to the Colosseum and lined up for a little while, but began the tour pretty much straight away.

It was AWESOME! The guide took us underneath in the part where all the props and animals were held, and then we got to walk across the stage (that’s been re-built) then we got to go to the highest level. She also told us a lot about the history and how they used to make things work. Like that they had pulley systems and elevators and trap doors for props and animals to jump out of. SO AWESOME!

After the our we hung around there for a little while, then we went out to lunch, where I had the worst service ever, and waited so long for my (incorrect) food I didn’t even end up eating there…

After, we basically just wandered around the city, I didn’t end up eating until like 6pm that day (after only having eaten a banana that morning :S) but I was ok.

This is the part where the day got shit. On the train home, my legs were really itchy, so I inspected to find not one mozzie bite, not two, but like 40 (obviously bed bugs again, not mozzie bites like I previously thought) So I bought some cream at the bus stop, and when we got back to the camping site, Ian and I demanded to change rooms. I had to pull a bit of a ‘mum’ to get them to give me money for laundry too. The guy came in and ‘inspected’ my sheets and said there was nothing there, and I lost my temper a little…

Anywhoo, after I did bully them into giving me money, I had to do my laundry at like 10.30pm, (because I had done ALL my washing the day before, laid it out on my bed to fold it, then out it back into my backpack, so EVERYTHING could have been infested) And I had to wait for 2 hours while my washing and drying was complete while wearing a shitty thin summer tank top dress that I was planning to throw away anyway… (It’s getting pretty cold here at night, I was freeeeeeezing!)

So after I did that, I moved tents into Haylee and Steph’s tent totally by co-incidence, then bought a can of Insecticide and fumigated my bag and all of my other belongings with about half a can of the stuff. Then had a shower and scrubbed myself raw…

I didn’t sleep until about 1am…

It started out a GREAT day, but turned really shitty pretty quickly…

Things that made me happy today; The Colosseum, by far my favourite site that I’ve seen in Europe.

Things that made me sad today; Well… need I even mention it again?