Last night - a couple of pictures
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| Dinner with our friends - Barb, Barb, David, Jeff, Vera & Ed |
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| 5 in the back seat - Jeff, Vera, David, Barb & Ed underneath! |
We had to get up early today as we
had to be at the Vatican by
9am for our tour of the Vatican
Gardens. We ate upstairs on the roof first as the sun
was breaking and what a great way to start the morning.
Out into the Rome
morning we went, walking the two blocks to the subway and went to the Vatican.
The tour was amazing as we were
walking in the gardens that the Pope’s had walked in the centuries past. The gardens take up ½ of the Vatican grounds and we spent 2 hours with our guide walking
through them – it was an amazing experience.
We did not see any of the Pope’s; however, one of the ladies on our tour
fell and broke her femur. When the
emergency vehicle came, we found out that there were 3 on the grounds at that
time. Probably not bad when we found out
that 25,000 people visit the Vatican
every day!!
Then we went into the
Vatican Museum and then to the Sistine Chapel.
We had been there before, but it is always
amazing to be inside the
Vatican.
We then went into St. Peters Cathedral.
To show you how big the
Vatican is, when we left the
Vatican Museum,
we took a cab to the other side to
St.
Peters.
It took
the cab about 10 minutes to get there in the city streets.
We were glad we didn’t walk.
After walking around St. Peters, we walked up
to the subway station and took the subway back to the hotel. We had been gone for 8 hours and almost all
of it walking.
To get back into shape, Ed iced down his knees while
Barb took a short nap. Barb is still
struggling and Ed’s knees hurt so we don’t walk as fast as we used to this trip
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| Palm trees in the Garden |
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| The English Maze |
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| A fountain in the Gardens where the former Pope lives |
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| One part of St. Peters |
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The ceiling in one of the hallways in the Vatican
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