Due to the nature of today's activities, today's wake up call came at 5.30am and we left our hotel at 7.15am for the Vatican museum, sistine chapel and St. Peter's square and bassilica. We were amazed to find thousands of people queing outside the vatican museum so early in the morning and even though we were in a group, we did not enter the museum until after 9am. We would hate to think how long you would have to que entering via the individual que instead of the que for groups. It really pays to do a tour for this very reason. The vaticum museum was amazing. Beautiful tapestry's, mosaic's, ancient roman statue's and paintings lined the walls. We spent many hours admiring it all under the direction of our tour guide, who was very enthusiastic,
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