Boxing Day

26th

Met others for a tour of Vatican and Museums at 9am. South African couple from yesterday also there (he's an underwater mapping geologist and she's in advertising for a woman's surfing magazine). It took 1/2 an hour to line up to get in and get headsets. Ryan a great tour guide, so much to see so he picked out some interesting bits was a 2km walk from the Pinecone statue at the front to the Sistine Chapel at the end. Turns out there were a lot of dodgy Popes. Loads of people crammed into the Sistine chapel lots taking illegal photos, poor guards didn't stand a chance. St Peter's Basilica, touched St Peter's right foot. Had lunch in the square then some more people watching, before walking back to Enjoy Hostel for rosemary potatoes, stirfried veg and meat + dessert (room 4 has a table and benches) then early to bed.

Ryan at the Jubilee Door

Tivoli Fountain

27th

Used my new wheelie bag to move to Stargate Hostels, closer to train station and Peter's Hostel. Turns out the wheelie bag was not a great success, the wheels are too close together so the bag keeps rolling. Has a kitchen (the hostel not my bag) but turns out there's no utensils cos they keep getting stolen.

Went to Pantheon where we got an audio guide but turns out we weren't that impressed with it, amazing feat of architechture or not.

Looked everywhere for a photo shop to clean Peter's camera of stray hairs showing up in photos. Took lots of photos at dusk of the birds coming in to nest, very cool but not very good for photographing! Caught a bus home for free to save our feet.

28th

Nice day walking to the Spanish Steps and Tivoli Fountain then on to Circo Massimo and St Maria in Cosmedin (the mouth of truth) then the metro home for €1

Threw this one in as am practising reducing the size of Peter's photos so it doesn't take so long to load, I think it's working!

29th

Phone calls today, sorting Egypt Air tickets and Kumuka for Peter so he can come to Egypt lots of time spent on Internet printing and photocopying then had to find office of Egypt Air to book. Whew! Ate a lot the last few days at our favorite place with the best calzone ever, absolutely huge and more like a pie than inside out pizza with loads of chicken or beef.