I want to go back.
As most of you already know, my beautiful , gorgeous, sexy wife :wub: got me the best present ever.....A trip to Rome for my 30th birthday, well to say I was chuffed to bits would be a serious understatement, I've actually been to Rome before but that was on a football trip to watch Leeds Utd v AS Roma in the Champions League, yes that's right, Leeds were once a good team! But anyway as it was a football trip the only sights I got to see were the inside's of the bars and tavern's.
Anyway this time I wanted to see everything, well as much as we could cram into two full days. We had a good flight time so we were in our hotel for about 10:30 which by the way was absolutely fantastic, it was called Hotel Fortyseven and was located on the Via Petroselli just adjacent to the Tiber island and within spitting distance of the Forum and Colosseum. I would recommend this hotel to anyone, it is a bit pricey but in my opinion well worth the money.
Day 1
We set off armed with a street map of Rome and a good guide book, We'd decided not to go straight to the forum, Colosseum and Palatine area's first and save that for the day after so we could get an early start at it, so we set off in the opposite direction and headed toward the Pantheon. On the way there we came across Piazza Navona which for those who don't know was once the grandstand of the stadium of Domitian and is now a piazza with shops, caf
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