Another tour I had been looking forward to after our “Coliseum at Night” tour was cancelled on Sunday night. I am perplexed how so many centuries ago that the Romans and other countrymen could build such structures so high in the air! Let’s get started! Our day started early – we had to be at the Parthenon again at 10am. The people of Rome are not an early bunch – you can definitely separate the tourists to the city dwellers at that time of the morning! Even our taxi driver I do not think was awake! We got to the Pantheon, had a bit of an issue with our tickets (they did not get the note that I had written on my booking that I use a walker) as the guide did not know what to do, however I was prepared and had read up about taking the elevator in the Coliseum so I thought we would be okay. She gave us a tour of the Pantheon, which was great and filled in some holes of information that we had from the previous day. Then we walked to the edge of the International Forum – which is connected to the Roman Forum. Elevator to go down here – check! Everyone went down the 40+ steps to the underground and the guide sent security to assist me with the elevator. It would go up and down no problem – with somone in it? NOPE! So I had to walk down the stairs, with Andrew’s assistance. It was very painful after our previous 2 days of escapades! The tour leader assured me that everything else would be accessible and it was – I was very thankful with that! Tough going at times on the road stones, however within the Roman Forum and Coliseum there were either raised platforms or concrete floors. So she led us through all the interesting relics in the Forum area – which is still under restoration – even now! We eventually made it out the front gate and down the road to the Coliseum where we all skipped the line (LONG LINE) and went right in to view its amazing structure. You have to have quite an imagination to understand what it all would have been like if the tallest structure still was in place – what a steep climb for the commoners to sit! Most of the seats were for “important” people – mainly men. After a tour, our guide left us and we spent some time looking at the building ourselves and then departed. Had some fun trying to get away from the Coliseum from an accessibility standpoint – the Coliseum is sunken down and we had to find a road to get us up to the main street that goes by – again, mostly stairs are around the Coliseum with no elevators next to them that we could find. Finally found a way and found a taxi to make it back to the hotel. Went for dinner again at the restaurant we went to on Sunday night that the hotel referred us to and had another great GF meal! That potato/octopus salad is really good! How do they make the octupus so easy to eat? They boil it with wine bottle corks! The things you learn when you ask questions… Captions to come…


































































































































