August 16th -The Coliseum, the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill

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Nalynn and I spent the day at the Roman Forum, the Coliseum and Palatine Hill. We started the day by learning Rome's Subway system This has saved us a great deal of walking and is very user friendly (unlike the European key board I am trying to use at the hotel computer.We did however do a lot of waking over the Via Sacreda, the 2000 year old Roman Road running through the forum and Palatine Hill. Nalynn and I had planned this trip in advance and downloaded some walking tours by Rick Steves on our phones. This allowed us to take a tour on our own and gain a true perspective of the history of the monuments that we saw. These audio guides are free and I can highly recommend them. Attached are pictures from the day.

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Photos

Scenery at the rooftop hotel pool
This a was a great place to cool off and enjoy the "scenery"

Comments

[John Taylor]

Coliseum
I thought the area around the Coliseum was more built up. Thankfully they do not have condos overlooking it.

[delmo]

Carma and Margo
Carma and margo were to be here at 5:00pn yesterday so I called Dean and said he would come over But Bono yelled they couldn't come till today .Dean said he would bring that computot and get Carma and Margo to help him with his facebook . They were sitting on the divan doing fb instructions and Bono grabed the comp.out of Deans hands and said we're supposed to be here visiting I said Bono your sure are bossy she said what did you say and I said your the bossiest person I have ever been around . I can't take her bulling people .