Day 8/otto

On Saturday, the first thing that happened in the day was figuring out a schedule. As the day had woken us up fully we were stuffing our bags full with cameras, phones , maps and so much more to get ready to leave to Piazza del Popolo. Nothing ever changes about the feeling of being in the Piazza del Polpolo square. By the time we had left the square it was past lunchtime and were heading towards the street called Via del Corso that led eventually to Piazza Navona and the Pantheon.

We walked down the street for a good fifteen minutes and turned of into a small side street where Piazza Navona started to come into view. By the time that we could see the square all you could see were buildings and street stalls. The commotion was all wound up into one Piazza. After taking a few photos and looking at different street stalls we moved on to the next activity. The Pantheon.

The Pantheon was vast. There was huge brick walls holding up for around 2000 years now. In history it is known that the Pantheon was the biggest dome to be held by itself in the world. Which is AMAZING! The next thing that happened was that we were going to be late. My dad and I were going to collect some family members from the airport that we hadn't seen since last Christmas. The leanardo express (the train that went straight to the airport) left in a matter of seconds and by the time we had a rest we arrived at the airport. After a good wait we saw my aunt, cousin and gran come to of the doors. After big hugs we all came home and went to the warmest place all day. My bed.

Day 7/sette

The morning was quiet and the afternoon came quickly. As the afternoon arrived, me and my sister got ready and went to the shops with Mum in the city. We went on the metro to the stop San Giovanni and we went to a shop called Coin and I got the most amazing fur coat. We went to some other shops to get tracksuits leggings and an over dress. The day had been great but hectic. We met up with Dad and went out for dinner and I had the best pizza. The pizza I had was a margherita, my favourite. It had a crunchy base and the cheese tasted delicious. We also had for starters a 'suppli' which is a rice ball with mozzarella and tomato, and bruschetta. Delicious! Unfortunately at this point I came down with conjunctivitis and had to go to the pharmacy for medicine. Mum had to use her phone to translate conjunctivitis and 'sore throat' into Italian. As soon as I was up to date with medicine I snuggled into bed and fell fast asleep.

Pictures of the Colosseum.

Day 6/sei

Yesterday we went to the place I have been begging to go to ever since we arrived. The Colosseum. As we arrived at the outside of the Colosseum my eyes got fixated on the strong, beautiful stone walls , as was everyone standing around me their thoughts the same of mine. We had a nice view from where we were standing. It was fabulous! we started walking up the long flights of stairs that led to vaults, underground tunnels and the arena. the experience of being there astounded me and I learnt a lot of information about the gladiator games, such as what happened. Someone who did something against the law or something bad they would get sent to the arena. The vaults and undergroumd tunnel were for the animals. The animals would pop out of trap doors suddenly and would be likely to kill the person, but very rarely the person would kill the animal and be allowed to stay alive so long as he didn't break the law ever again. Back then it was a vicious time. After a while of trooping round the Colosseum we were starving and tired the experience had been great and we had taken some great photos so the day came to a close and we all went home to our comfy beds and soon later fell asleep.  

Just to let you know I'm skipping day 4/ quattro!!!!!!

Day 5/cinque

A few days ago my sister, my dad and I went in the afternoon to the most amazing church. Before we went inside (we had to wait for a while to let it open) we had a look around the tourist attractions near to the church. Seeing that people were lining up to go in we started coming back past the gelato shop and were supposed to stop for a small gelato but ended up with a massive blob on a stick which was only one scoop and we took a while to finish the vanilla substance melting in our mouths. The thing we knew was that we were full and the gates were opening.

A great leap into the San Pietro in Vincoli church and everything behind me faded. It was beautiful. The church was filled with something called frescoes which are paintings of different matters on the ceilings. There were paintings of the pope. In a glass cage there was something called Peter's chains. They were the chains that someone called Peter a disciple wore in prison. He was put in prison because he was Christian. The most popular thing in the church was of course Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses made out of marble. The sculpture took 3 years in total to make. The sculpture has been made with the finest detail using only a hammer and chisel to carve the marble (which is a very strong type of material). Everyone took photos of pictures of the sculpture, Peter's chains and the pope paintings. The church doors faded behind us as we walked back towards the train station on the old streets of Rome!

This is Michelangelo's sculpture. 

These are Peter's chains. 

Photos

                               This is us at the gardens opposite Piazza del Popolo.

                                     This is a photo of the gardens that are opposite the Piazza del            
                                              Popolo.

                         These are some photos of Piazza del Popolo.

                       These are some photos of the colosseum at night.