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Roaming around Rome

Rome was great fun, actually very easy to find your way around, plenty of Metro stations and an easy place to walk around the main tourist spots. Our little B&B as I said was in a great spot, well we liked anyway, being away from the large crowds ( although we were across the road from the Vatican city Museum). Everything we needed was within 2 mins walk, and we found a cool very small corner bar that made the best coffee so far.

Friday in Rome was a little grey and rainy, but suited us well as we were happy to take it easy. By mid afternoon though we were ready for a walk around and strolled up towards the Vatican Museum. Much to our surprise there was no queue to get in, just a bit of a wait inside, so we were very lucky to get a really good run viewing the various Museums, Galleries, apartments and, of course the Sistine Chapel.

The place is really quite overwhelming, so many works of art from Egypt, Classical, Braccio Nuovo, Gregorian, Religious art, modern art, tapestries, frescoes and maps from the 16th Century. I was intrigued by the maps which were incredibly accurate, especially if you think about how they could have been drawn.

Anyway, a few pictures of inside which of course do very little justice to the place. There are no photos allowed in the Sistine Chapel, I lost track of how long we were in there gazing at the ceiling and walls.

Here's the obligatory photos of us in the Vatican, and a particularly special photo of Joe standing still, while everything around him is moving.