Europe Day 22 - Part Three

Last part of the last day in Rome!

After the ruins we set out for the Bocca della Verita



Which honestly I don’t know much about other than it’s in Roman Holiday and E wanted to go. But it was still fun!

Last doings after the break!

Europe Day 22 - Part Two

From the Colosseum we moved onto this huuuuge archeological site, which the ticket include admission to.



That is not it. That’s the Arch of Constantine. Which is right outside.

See after the break!

Europe Day 22 - Part One

Whoops, had this all written up and forgot to post 8D

2nd and last day in Rome!
We had leftover pizza for breakfast and hit the same cafe for awesome deliciousness, then off to… the Colosseum! I was most excited about this :D



Onto the Colosseum!

Europe Day 21 - Part Five

It was a bit dismal when we left the Vatican, but  not too bad.

We wandered Saint Peter’s Square for a bit, which is a circle by the by.

End of Day 21 (about time)!

Europe Day 21 - Part Four

So I think I mentioned, but we went to the Vatican for the Sistine Chapel, kind of a must. All the other things are bonuses.

Beyond not realizing how huge the Vatican Museum is in general, there were a lot of painted ceilings I was totally unaware of. To be honest though, partly due to the fact that we knew we didn’t have a lot of time and that we were unprepared for the vastness, we were hitting processing overload. So we wanted to get to the ceiling before were just like “Okay yay another pretty thing.”

That is not it.

But it was on the way there, and I really liked that hallway.

Sistine Chapel! Finally!

Europe Day 21 - Part Three

The Vatican, STILL.

Today will be a bunch of statues! (Then ceilings, then a castle to end the day)

You can see a bit in the background, the transition from Egypt to Greece 8D

Bring on the marble!

Europe Day 21 - Part Two

The Vatican! OMG!

I took a lot of pics, so this is mostly pics and not commentary. Also, it’s just some of the pics 8D

I loved the Egyptian section. We have a very fine Egyptian museum local to me, the Rosicrucian Museum, and I loooove going there. Still, I’ve been many times, so it was lovely to see new things :D

Pics!

Europe Day 21 - Part One

I’ve been avoiding this post! Because we went a lot of places. It’s gotta be split up!

So! After we woke up in the morning, it didn’t smell so bad with the window open all night. But it was super cold :/

I took a super fast shower and off we went! During our post midnight jaunt to get *to* the hostel we’d passed a cafe, so we went there for breakfast. We just had to point at things ‘cause yeah, I don’t know any Italian. I mean, I could have tried my hand with Latin but… can’t think of a way to order orange juice like that 8D;; Actually, we did have orange juice! ‘Cause on the counter there was this thing… and they juice the oranges RIGHT THEN. IT WAS SO GOOD.

Europe Day 20

Oh man, this day. Leaving Budapest day.

Well, we started it by eating or throwing out all the leftovers, and we had a semi early start because checkout was at 12:30, and we wanted to walk around Not With Our Backpacks. I don’t remember if I’d mentioned, but based on e-mail we’d been under the impression that we could leave our backpacks there the entire day, sadly not so. Anyway, the door bell rings. I think for some reason the guy must be WAY early… obviously I am not thinking, ‘cause I open the door. And. It’s not him. It was a handy man who needed access to the balcony to take some measurements, ‘cause he was working next door or something. I thought, well we’re eating, we’re there, it’s just some measurements, I guess that’s okay.

So he takes the measurements, then comes back and tries to explain More Things. In Hungarian. I’m just like “This cannot end well.” Well, I just called the person who was supposed to meet us for the key exchange, and had him talk to the handyman. And he said just let him do whatever he needs to do. But… somehow he didn’t convey to the handyman himself that we were leaving, and it was fine to just.. do whatever. So this poor guy, he’s getting frustrated I have no idea what he’s talking about. Eventually he got us to follow him downstairs to talk to the apartment manager, who speaks English. I told him we were leaving, and gave him the guys phone number, the manager said that was fine, he’ll just explain it again with the new people… so we left. It was just very weird, and sounds super short here, but it was quite a bit of time and the poor handyman was all frustrated, and I was getting flustered ‘cause I thought the phone call settled the whole matter.

ANYWAY.
I’m sure it worked out in the end.

We went to the Great Market.



It was pretty great!