Timeline of the day:
8am: walked to the bus stop
9am: reached Colosseum
10:50am: guided tour ends, took bus and metro towards the Vatican City entrance
11:35am: joined in the queue (I think this was the longest queue I've ever had)
1pm: finally entered Vatican Museum
3pm: exited Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museum, walked to St Peter's Square
4:15pm: took train back to hotel
4:55pm: reached hotel
7pm: walked to dinner at nearby hotel
8:30pm: reached back to our hotel (raining)
9pm: cooked instant noodles
Spendings of the day:
Gelato: €2.50
Alf's sandwich: €3
Entrance fees to the Vatican Museum: €13 x 2 = €26
Postage stamps inside Vatican Museum: €0.80 each x 2 = €1.60
Postcards: €0.60 x 3 = €1.80
Vatican souvenir coin: €10
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| The station closest to Colosseum |
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| Don't advise wearing heels |
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| Another reason why its best not to wear heels in Rome |
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| Queuing to enter Vatican City |
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| Eating lunch while queuing |
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| Lunch = gelato :) |
There will be many people who try to cut queue. Watch out for them. A group tried to cut in front of us and I told them to leave the queue.
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| writing postcard while queuing |
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| finally able to see the entrance of the Vatican Museum |
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| Inside Sistine Chapel |
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| Vatican postage stamp. |
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| Mailing a postcard from within Vatican City. |
Left Vatican City.
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| Swiss Guards at Vatican |
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| Walking towards St Peter's Square at Vatican |
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| 1 side of the line = Vatican City, the other side of the line = Rome. |
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| 1 foot in Rome, 1 foot in Vatican City. :) |
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| no man's land :) |
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| St Peter's Square |
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| 1 of the postcards which I mailed here reached me in Singapore torn. |
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| 2nd Gelato of the day |
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| Trying to figure out how to get back to the hotel |
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| Bus stops |
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| Finally arrived back at hotel |
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| Dinner at a nearby hotel...ahh...rice :) |
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