Day 30

Tecnically speaking I am home, but I wanted to finish the diary.

Today was a big day for us, we were finally going to see some of Romes biggest and most impressive attractions. Namely the Colleseum and Pantheon. However our iternerary pointed us in a completely different direction to start off.

We headed down the same old streets and ended up back at the all too epic "Momument to the forgotten soldier", tonight it was open so we headed up the steps and into the museum to see some of the more impressive modern sculptures around Rome. The place is epic, a huge marble monument made in the Neo Classical style, I for one, really like it.

After that we headed to the forum area, the true ruins of Ancient Rome. It was here we "bought" our tickets for the Colesseum and stuff too. I said "Bought" because they were actually free for under 18 EU citizens. Noice. We walked around in the baking heat and discussed the wonders of the city as it spread out before us, however something was on all of our minds. The arena.

We finally headed up to the Colesseum itself, we skipped the queues and scanned our tickets. Before stepping in to the immpressive oval arena. This 75,000 seater stadium is known for being one of the most impressive buildings in the world, and for good reason. It truly is fantastic.

However our mamoth day sightseeing did not end there, we wanted to go to the Pantheon and get inside, some of the lads hadn't been too impressed with the view from the outside as it wasn't all that cool. Once we were there though they had the oppurtunity to see inside the oldest Christian church, To stare at the almost perfectly hemispherical dome, with its circular iris, to marvel at the beauty of such a wonderful building, that had somehow surved the rape of the Catholic churchl.

Later we headed back to the hostel before intending to go out into town. This was a bit of an epic mess up. The river side was a promenade of classy bars and expensive areas, town itself was quite and boring. Drinking on streets was illegal so our bottle of wine got confiscated by an under cover cop, and worst of all Mac Ds closes at 11pm in Rome... WTF