Rome: Jun 24-25

that is Fonzie our new mascot sitting in front of the couch Fonzie close up Colosseo Colosseo Colosseo - and these remains actually are just skeletons...
top row's arch dead bodies out on this gate any crosses are added years later Colosseum + me the girls bought Azza these 'dancing girl headpiece' :)
looking into there... those stairs imagaine when the 'canvas' are up... wow Arch of Constantine arch - to Ancient City ruins
Kate with the headpiece on ;) remains of the Foro Romano need a lot of imaginations archeological works being done all the time some... temple?
this is not about a few hundred years but what is left after 2000years... Apostle Paul was enprisoned here! Monument Vittorio Emauele II looking from Piazza Venezia - it is really huge and grand Trevi Fountain
of course billions of people around view with the water don't remember having this photo taken! waiting and resting in the shades Piazza Colonna
Pantheon - another ~2000 years old building well preserved one of the mini 'chapel' dome with circular sky-window! magnificient - even Michelangelo marvelled at it
err... whatever it means???!!! what would it be like living in a touristy piazza? FYI - the guy in olive jacket is the 'statue' entertainer :) while having dinner at one of the piazza grandpa playing with kid
one of the cafe at Piazza Navona which is the one filmed in LR? this one? nah... this looks more like it?... or... this one?
last guess... Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers aah! Spansih Steps 6:40pm - still loads of people take a seat, everyone...
to the upper level - LR... looking down from 1st level looking down from top level from the gelato shop
we resting... ...and waiting... my hand compare to Raymond's hand... platform at Valle Aurelia train station sunset
Jacko got one too! :) one of the courtyard in Vatican starting of the journey to Sistine Chapel it is a long one-way route darkened room to protect those valuable knittings
info re the Sistine Chapel - but still, a long walk ahead... breath-taking ceiling looking backwards and then there are these big rooms with big drawings etc etc etc...
here is a long one... spiral stairs at the exit of museum Vatican (Swiss?) guards (police?) Piazza San Pietro partial view from the northern side
"ruff ruff!" for every church buildings/ cathedrals in Europe another kind of guards St. Peters - with statue of Paul there another 200 years of work
someone smashed christ's nose and mary's hand back in 1972, hence the glass division just there on the floor one of the popes body in glass coffin (i think) main alter - the 4 rods by Bernini with 10 years of work bronze statue of 'Peter' - right foot rubbed by pilgrims hence it is 'deformed'
dome - the queue waiting for the lift to go up there is absolutely horrifying relics - Peter's remains view from grotta is it still called 'tomb' or ???... IMG_1053
there is this stream of light... so everyone is queuing up to get a photo like this :) looking out to the piazza statue of Peter super expensive (as expected) lunch --> 10euro each
Castel Sant' Angelo gives nice view of the Vatican and Rome FYI Ponte S. Angelo... statues by Bernini again
with St. Peters at the background River Tiber good band Piazza Del Popolo with 3200years old Obelisk of Pharaoh Ramses II with similar buildings there
wonder what they are... guess how much it is to attend such a concert? 30-55euro each in a 250-seat hall! Spanish steps at 2:45pm - hot and sweating... totally need gelato... oldest cafe - with customers like Chopin, Liszt...
San ta Maria della Concezione/ Cappuccini however, again, it is closed down for RENOVATION... inside Saint Pietro in Vincoli works by Michelangelo his Moses - as great as his David...
IMG_1095 the miraculous chain inside the Colosseo IMG_1103 note the cross...
view from 2nd level with reconstruction of some of the seats IMG_1107 IMG_1109 the steps are pretty high
view from Colosseo IMG_1112 view to the west hello kitty kitty cat cat look this way!
this way! this way! not that way?! okok - i'll leave u for your bathing time wedding photo - yes, the photographer asked for that pose... faked goods floods the area
another wedding photo group Bocca della Verita - Mouth of Truth ok... all you Roman Holiday fans - scream i was there too late - the section is closed Teatro di Mercello (?)
and there are open-air concert here also 'how much?' you ask... 54euro flat rate!!!!! (no way i'm not going to this concert :P ) this is what it's like... IMG_1144
IMG_1150 IMG_1151 IMG_1152 Ponte Fabricio Ponte Cestio
IMG_1157 had dinner here - Piazza S. Calisto S. Maria in Trastevere... ...in a more correct exposure what our cabins like at Seven Hills
we were residing in this lodges - with various animals around and to say good bye - Raymond shows his belly...