I had planned this day to take it EASY, starting with breakfast in the room (as I could not reach the buffet, the Front Desk Manager and I came to an agreement this was the compromise), with our Vatican Tour on Monday and our Coliseum and surrounding sights walking tour on Wednesday… Well, that is NOT how it turned out to be! We logged over 12 km walking around the city! Starting off at the Spanish Steps, which was within walking distance from our hotel, we knew that another “Fast and Furious” movie was being filmed in Rome, thanks to our driver from the cruise terminal to the hotel. He wants to be a driver for the movie stars! However we did not expect it to being filmed at the top of the Spanish Steps today! So we got there and were promptly told to view from the bottom instead – so more walking downhill, which was good in a way…until you need to go back up! Next on Lynda’s walking tour was the Trevi Fountain, then the Pantheon, and the Piazza Navrona where we stopped and had a gelato and Andrew a beer. Rome was turning out to be hot – 27 degrees C! Next on the tour was to walk the Ponte Vittorio to view the Castel Sant’Angelo. We were one bridge down the Tiber River and not on the Ponte that leads directly to the Castel, however I was losing steam at this point and once we got our viewing completed from Vittorio, we found a taxi (which took about 30 minutes of searching) and returned to the hotel. We had leftovers from breakfast – fruit, cheese, crackers (GF of course!) and some GF cookies I had purchased for dinner as we were exhausted and had an early morning on the 11th for our Roman Highlights tour! Again, comments to come…
