Rome

Colosseum

We got to our apartment and dumped our bags and had a chill out. They had a DVD with the film Gladiator so we put it to get an idea of the colosseum in the past. Then we went for a walk to the colosseum and got our tickets and walked around it. We looked at the bottom where they put the people in to fight. It would have been really scary. The stadium was huge and would have been unbelievably noisy.

Vatican Museum

The next day we went to the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. It was a very long queue to get in but when we finally did we went to look at all the very special and valuable statues and paintings.

After walking around for a couple of hours we still hadn’t been into the Sistine Chapel but we went to the cafe because we all were really hungry.

 

Finally we went into the Sistine Chapel where the painting of the touching fingers is. It is a painting of God and Adam touching fingers. It was in the middle on the roof. It was very crowded and you weren’t allowed to take photos, which was annoying. 

St Peters Basilica

After the Vatican we went to St Peters Basilica, the head of the Catholic Church. When I walked in the church, I was amazed when I saw it. The roof was blue, white and gold and there were amazing statues all around. I think it the most beautiful church I have ever seen. Just as we were leaving it went mad with rain and lighting. It was horrendous!  We tried to shelter undercover hiding behind a column in St Peters square but we still got wet as the rain came in sideways. There were people selling rain coats and umbrellas but it was no use because we were already soaking wet. We tried to get home but it was really wet. We had to run through the puddles. I was really cold, so was Emma. I still had a great day though. I rate it a 10 out of 10

Trevi Fountain

Mum and Dad made us go to a lot of sights in Rome on our last day there. I was looking forward to seeing the Trevi Fountain because I had been reading about it in a book that morning and had made lots of notes that I wanted to read out when we were there. Eventually we got to the Trevi Fountain. There were lots of tourists there but we fought our way to the fountain and threw in a coin which means we will come back to Rome. 

I read out all of the information to Mum, Dad and Emma who found it very interesting.

I loved Rome it was a very interesting place.