Our last day!!! We are about ready to be home and we are not looking forward to the long trip home.
We decided against riding up to Pisa to see the leaning tower (I should not have bought those rail passes) and instead just spend a leisurely day filling in what we missed and buying souvenirs.
We rode the metro to the Colosseum and realized the were having a parade in the historical areas so you could walk all the streets without fear of a cabbie killing you.
We went to Trajan ‘s Market next to the Imperial Forum. It is very well preserved. Trajan ‘s Market is like the world’s first shopping mall. Until his time if you want fish you went to the fish market need beef go to the beef market. He cut a huge semicircle out of the hill that butted up to the imperial forum and built a four tiered market with designated stalls for each vendor and internal walkways to increase the number of shops that could fit into the given area. You can still see the marble on the plaza, the mosaic floors in the stalls and the stall numbers still etched in the marble door frames after almost 1800 yrs! We then retraced our steps of the previous night tour and did some trinket shopping and haggling along the way. After we got to Piazza Novano again, we walked back toward Castel Sant ‘Angelo and the Vatican. At about 5pm (on Sunday) we took the metro back to our hotel and rested for a few hours. When we finally went out to eat dinner we realized everything closes early on Sunday. So we walked to the one place we knew would be open... McDonald ‘s! That just made us home sick. Tomorrow we are outta here!
M&T
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