Our experience in Rome

Our travels through Rome

Elizabeth - I went to Rome on a train from Pisa. It was very nice, first class of course - and we got our own cabin. When we got to Rome the train stzation was busy. We got a taxi to the front gate of Via Guisseppe Missouri which is where we were stayng. When we got to our apartment the nuns greeted us nicely. They gave us our keys and off we went to our rooms - no. 20 and 22.

Later that day we went to check out St Peters Square, near the Vatican. It was quite busy and people were lined up everywhere to get into the Vatican. We didn't go in, we didn't want to get into the line. We went out and suddenly the police closed the exits. We were wondering what was happening. We asked the policeman and he said that the Pope was going to come past in his car. A couple of seconds later about 16 plice motor bikes came driving into the gates to vatican city , then two police cars, then the pope in his car. He waved to us and it was very exciting. We had dinner afterwards at a place nearby - it was nice - we had a great day!

William - We arrived in Pisa. We then caught the train, first class, to Rome Terminal. We had our own carriage at it was very nice. In Rome we caught a taxi to the nuns. We went in and were greeted by Sr Mini. That day was the feast day of St James so Sr Mini gave James some cholocation. We were in rooms 20 and 22 on level 3. From our windows you could see a whole different country - we could see the Vatican. Later that day we decided to go for a walk down to the Vatican. We had a look around the Vatican. When we were leaving the Police stopped us and said that we couldn't exit - the Pope was coming home. We waited for about 5 minutes and sure enough the Pope came home with heaps of police around him and a helicopter overhead.

We were not sure if it was the Pope - but have alook at this movie clip = you decide.
AFter that we went to the lovely restaurant near the Vatican. I had spagetti carbonara, mum had seafood risotto, dad had meatballs in tomato sauce and James and Xavier had spagetti carbonara. Elizabeth had a bit of everyones.
Here are some of the other things I did while we were in Rome. We visited the Colleseum, Circus Maximus- the sight of the Ben Hur Movie, St Peters Bascilica and went to an amusement park. We went for a long walk right around Rome. Overall Rome was great but we only needed a few days there.