We arrived in Rome just after lunch. We booked into a bungalow in a tourist park for 3 nights which had easy access by train to the city. It was really hot so we decided the pool and something to eat would be the way to go. When we got to the pool, there was a Contiki tour group there , with the majority of them being Australian and New Zealanders! There was also an Australian behind the bar and he was making hamburgers – the closest thing to an Aussie burger (no beetroot!) you would ever get in Italy. It was really good too.
The next 2 days we spent visiting all the major tourist sites in Rome, such as the colliseum, the trevi fountain, the Spanish steps, the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, St Peters etc. We’ve had such a good time. Rome was actually a lot quieter than we expected. We thought there would be huge crowds and long lines into the various sites, but the only line we had to queue up for was the Vatican, and that only took 15 minutes to get into. We were both really pleased about the lack of crowds, as the temperature in Rome was 47 deg C! At least it cooled down at night so you could sleep.
