i am sparticus: (Not) In A Coffee Shop

(Not) In A Coffee Shop

The problem with travelling with someone else is that you don't stop in a coffee shop for an hour at a time and write witty thoughts. You stop in a coffee shop sure, and definitely you make witticisms, but then you laugh lots about them and you don't remember why they were funny and they probably don't translate well to the internet.

The Colosseum? Large, but falling apart and you can't really see much, and in fairness, the whole large thing? We've got that nailed in the 20th century. A tour of Portman Road would have been more impressive, the distinct lack of information posted around the place led you to make up most of the facts about it for yourself, which, while fun, wasn't very enlightening.

The Vatican is pretty sweet though, the views inside are phenomenal, even if it does make you sad that so much money was wasted on such a thing. On our way to the roof myself and the girlfriend took the wrong queue and ended up going through the tomb of the popes, or whatever it's really called. That was weird. Don't die pope if you dislike the idea of thousands of people you don't know staring at your grave and crossing themselves. I felt I should tell the little old lady in front of us that touching some cold marble probably won't get her into heaven any quicker, even if John Paul I was underneath it. I didn't though, we weren't allowed to speak. On our second time around queuing we got the right entrance and made our way to the top of the Cathedral. The views are quite pretty really though if you don't like steps, or extreme thigh pain, maybe not worth the bother. The lift is a con too, as it takes you up a third of the steps, but only maybe a quarter of the height due to cunning stair dimension math.

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