Our morning started something like this..
Me: Susan...
Susan: What time is it?
Me: its 9:30am
Susan What time does breakfast close - 11?
Me: Nope... 10am
Susan: Oh.
So we got down to breakfast in time.
After checking out a couple of churches, we took the Metro across the Tiber River to the closest stop to the Vatican. we had a very expensive... very expensive lunch at the Caffe Vaiticano. No posted prices like a lot of the places. We learned something.
Met up with the tour and had an excellent tour guide through the Vatican Museums, the Rafael Rooms, and the Sistine Chapel. The company that runs these tours limits group sizes to 20. This tour was worth every penny.... no long wait just to get tickets, and a guide who was friendly, considerate and very knowledgable... She also had a great sense of humor.
The Vatican Museum is an amazing and enormous place. Thank God for the guide. Also beautiful art and sculpture. It was hard to soak it all in. And, then toward the end of the tour we had about 20 minutes to just be in the Sistine Chapel.
our tour ended on the portico of St. Peter's with a great view out at St. Peter's Square. thousands of cahirs were set up in the plaza for wednesday's papal audience. We then went inside this magnificent place of worship. Wow, is all I can say. I urge you all to watch Christmas Eve Midnight Mass from this basilica.
Need less to say, we were exhausted by the end of the tour and found a side chapel to sit and rest our feet.... then walked back to the Metro station and headed back to the hotel. We had amuch more reasonably priced supper at a little cafe we found the other night on the Via Veneto. Shared a pizza and had some lemon sorbet. Yum.
Now for some photos:
Tomorrow, off to Ancient Rome.
Ciao
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