Roma

Our time in Florence had come to and end, and we have thoroughly enjoyed it. Our day started with our usual bread intake (we've never eaten so much bread in our lives!) before starting the walk with all our bags to Santa Maria Novella train station.

It was here I spotted the coolest of sights. Police on Segway scooters!! There are police everywhere in Italy but the Segways were the coolest mode of transport I have seen them on yet!

The train ride to Rome was painless and it goes to show how every other European country can sort out our train system except England - had to have a little dig :)

We found our hotel with little trouble and dropped off our bags. The lady at the desk was very helpful and told us the best way to get around which happened to be the Metro to the Colleseum. On the way we stopped for a pick-me-up cappucino, probably the best since we have been in Italy and at 1.60euro for both it was by far the cheapest!

We arrived at the Colleseum shortly after and took a walk around. We debated whether we should go in but it was 11euro each (doesn't sound much I know but we have the dregs of our budget left) and we had both been before so we decided against it. The Colleseum is an amazing structure and you just can't appreciate the size until you are right up next to it.

We walked through the Roman Forum and discovered it was about 37 degrees today. We needed to get out of the sun so we headed for the shade of Via di Corso which took us to the Trevi Fountain (as spectacular as the last time I saw it) where we cooled our feet in the mini water cooler jets. We went from here to the Spanish steps (less spectacular than last time for some reason) then up to Piazza del Popolo before heading to the Pantheon and Piazza Navona.

It reached beer o'clock and I could've skulled my Natro Azzuro but paced myself but decided to stay for another anyway! After the heat of the day, god that beer was good. We walked back to the Colleseum to catch the Metro back to Termini and back to our hotel for another shower.

We went out to dinner (fantastic pizza) and are now at the internet cafe round the corner. We have yet to decide if we have time to visit Vatican City tomorrow but I guess it will depend on how well we sleep tonight.

We start our monsterous journey back to Oz tomorrow, with our flight from Rome taking us to Amsterdam (back tracking god dammit) at about 5pm tomorrow. Only then to we start to make head way by flying to Kuala Lumpur for a wonderful 6 hour layover. Then we start our flight to Sydney. Oh god.