I managed to find a pub to watch the Lions game in, what a game as well! We got away very lucky in the end! It was a really good atmosphere with about 50:50 split of Brits and Ozzies.
After the game I went to the Forum, which is like an open archeological site. Apparently there is so much history beneath the surface of Rome it is illegal to dig more than 20cm without council permission and the presence of an archeologist!
After the forum, where I met a couple of the Ozzies from the pub. I went to the Colosseum. The colosseum is vast! I could really imagine the spectacles they put on there. My favourite part was looking at all of the little cave like rooms under where the fights would have taken place.
It also really made me want to watch the movie Gladiator!
I then went on a walking tour, which was also fantastic. It was very interesting, I saw the mummified head of John the Baptist, the tomb of Raffiel and also learnt that the roof of the pantheon is made out of pummis stone.
In the evening I met up with Mandy, a friend I made back in Milan. We went to he hostel bar, had a drink or five and met some other really cool people.
The next day was far more chilled. I still did a ton of walking but Mandy and I just chilled out in a big park for a while. I crashed out at about half eight. When my room mates came back at 11 they woke me and I overheard them complaining that they were running late. I put two and two together and came out with nine. I assumed it was morning and leaped out of my top bunk, flying around the room collecting my things, as check out is 10am. This scared the shit out of my room mates as I don't think they even knew I was in the room. One of them had to grab me by the arm and tell me it was still night time.
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