Day 18- 2 September 2008
Today i got up at 4.20am to catch an expensive taxi to the main train station (as it was too early for the metro) and then got on a bus to Girona Airport which is about 1.5 hours from Barcelona to catch my cheap flight to Rome, Italy. Well lucky i got a cheap flight costing only 30 euros (including Taxes) as it cost me 25 euros to get to the girona airport and 8 euros to get from Rome (ciampana Airport) to the main train station in rome. All in all a comfortable ride the whole way and 30 minutes ahead of schedule i got to Roma Termini (main train station) around 10am which was great time given my flight was suppose to come in at 9.50am and it takes 40 minutes by bus from the airport to the train station.
I then found my way through a maze of streets with no map (and only the basics of my 9 years of learning Italian in primary and the start of second school (with the much assistance of a police officer, florist and Ness on the phone i found our hostel Mamma Mia. Which is a new hostel that they decided to change us to without letting us know until Ness came to the door step of our previously booked hostel. But all is good, the room is clean and nice and the guy looking after the place is a friendly Japanese fellow who is cooking us dinner tonight.
After finally meeting up with Ness we headed to the Palentine and Roman Forum which is the original site of the roman empire and has archaeological digs, ruins and very large parts of old buildings which date back from before 800BC. The site must have been raided some time ago, because nearly all statutes in the museum are headless with heads on empty columns everywhere. There are some magnificent giant arches on the site and it would have been a very impressive city back in the day. We then headed to the Colesso (Colosseum) which is breathtaking. We took an audio tour around and it is exactly what you hope for and is extremely large. Parts of it are in tact and other parts have been raided. Several hundred years ago it was abandoned as a venue and eventually people pillaged the site for building materials which explains why there is such a large portion missing. Apparently they had large amounts of animals fighting with the gladiators including hippopotamus !!! What a site.
We then hit the streets and returned to out hotel via a quick gelati stop for Ness.
Ahhh Rome, Magnifco...
Day 18- 2 September 2008
Today i got up at 4.20am to catch an expensive taxi to the main train station (as it was too early for the metro) and then got on a bus to Girona Airport which is about 1.5 hours from Barcelona to catch my cheap flight to Rome, Italy. Well lucky i got a cheap flight costing only 30 euros (including Taxes) as it cost me 25 euros to get to the girona airport and 8 euros to get from Rome (ciampana Airport) to the main train station in rome. All in all a comfortable ride the whole way and 30 minutes ahead of schedule i got to Roma Termini (main train station) around 10am which was great time given my flight was suppose to come in at 9.50am and it takes 40 minutes by bus from the airport to the train station.
I then found my way through a maze of streets with no map (and only the basics of my 9 years of learning Italian in primary and the start of second school (with the much assistance of a police officer, florist and Ness on the phone i found our hostel Mamma Mia. Which is a new hostel that they decided to change us to without letting us know until Ness came to the door step of our previously booked hostel. But all is good, the room is clean and nice and the guy looking after the place is a friendly Japanese fellow who is cooking us dinner tonight.
After finally meeting up with Ness we headed to the Palentine and Roman Forum which is the original site of the roman empire and has archaeological digs, ruins and very large parts of old buildings which date back from before 800BC. The site must have been raided some time ago, because nearly all statutes in the museum are headless with heads on empty columns everywhere. There are some magnificent giant arches on the site and it would have been a very impressive city back in the day. We then headed to the Colesso (Colosseum) which is breathtaking. We took an audio tour around and it is exactly what you hope for and is extremely large. Parts of it are in tact and other parts have been raided. Several hundred years ago it was abandoned as a venue and eventually people pillaged the site for building materials which explains why there is such a large portion missing. Apparently they had large amounts of animals fighting with the gladiators including hippopotamus !!! What a site.
We then hit the streets and returned to out hotel via a quick gelati stop for Ness.
Ahhh Rome, Magnifco... 
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