Rome and Florence

The last couple of days have been amazing. So much to see and we have only seen such a small amount of what these two cities have to offer 

On Monday we caught the train to Florence leaving Rome about 8am. Florence has just so much for us to explore and it was obvious one really needs a few days there. We chose to do the hopon off bus tour which would take us to the places we wished to see.

Views of the city were beyond our expectations

Lots of walking also took place with stops for lunch, gelato and coffee along the way

Tuesday we had a tour booked for the Colessium. Again what an experience. So much ancient history nit only at the colessium but at the many areas we saw as we walked the streets to get to our destination

It was very warm at colessium so drinking lots ofwater helped with the heat.  Our tour also included the Roman forum. Again very ancient history and for me it was just too hot to really appreciate all it had to offer

Following this we got on a hop on hop off bus getting of close to our hotel. In the meantime we discovered that the Vatican would be closed for a couple of days. We had planned to visit with our tour as this was an optional extra.  Lucy fortunately managed to find a skip the line for the Sistine Chapel so we found a taxi and headed to meet the tour.

This was beyond my expectation. So much history and lots of food for thought as one wondered how the beautiful artwork was done many years ago.  A truly amazing place