Rome

First I have to say sorry for not posting for a week. Got sick in Nice and then came to Rome.

Rome is a pretty cool place, lots of history with the colosseum, the roman forum and the vatican are all super neat. St Peters Basilica is incredibly massive, just breathtaking, and the sistine chapel cannot be compared. I also visited the Basilica of St Paul by accident after getting on the Metro and going the wrong way to discover that It was not very far, that is another really beautiful church, the Catholics seem really good at making nice churches....... The city does not have the natural beauty that the cote d azur does, but the history is just incredible, and the locals play it up. They have Historical reenactors around the colosseum that look as though they are having a great time. The Romans are also good at exploiting the history to sell trinkets to tourists. I also went to a soccer game, or Calcio as the locals call it. Lazio of Rome vs Sampdoria. It was a pretty good game which the home side, Lazio won 2 - 1 much to the delight of the crowd who were more than boisterous with their songs. It was also a good day for Lazio because arch-rivals AS Roma lost 3-0 in their away game. I am off to Napoli tomorrow and then doubling back to Florence, so I will be posting more later, I should have time to upload photos from the next hostel, here I have to pay for internet at one of the bizarre Internet point/laundromats they have in these parts, although it is not a traditional laundromat because they actually do your lauyndry for you, very convenient!