Colosseum
View of Ancient City from Palatine Hill
Remains of Emperor Augustus's Palace
Roman Ruins
Trajan's Column
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Spring Break: Roma, Day 1
After a long Friday of traveling from St. Andrews to Glasgow to London, I met up with my Spring Break travel buddies, Laurel, and her friend, Sarah. We stayed overnight in London-Gatwick airport and took a plane to Roma at 7am Saturday morning. We arrived in downtown Roma by 11 am and after dumping our luggage off at our B&B, we headed off towards the ancient part of the city, which, with Trajan's column, the Colosseum, and Roman ruins everywhere you turned, wasn't that hard to find. After wandering around a bit, we got a combined ticket for the Colosseum and Palatine Hill, one of the oldest parts of the city, where the residences and palaces of many affluent members of the Republic were built. The Colosseum was even larger than I imagined. I think I was more impressed with it than Laurel was, but that's probably because she didn't know anything about it, besides the fact that it was famous and Roman. I told her we would watch Gladiator when we got back to school. Palatine Hill was beautiful, and the views of the city from one of the upper gardens were amazing. However, as we were finishing the site, it started to rain, the only time on our trip, in fact. We weren't too upset though, because we were jet-lagged, seriously lacking sleep from our night in the airport, and feeling gross from being unable to shower. Needless to say, it was an early night back at the B&B, which was run by this really sweet Italian woman, Maria.
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