Day 3: Our story

Phew! We packed in a lot in the previous two days!

We decide (or rather, it is me that decides) that we should get in some more monumental sight seeing. We take the metro to another area of the city, and after walking a couple of blocks we find ourselves at an amazing building,

Ali says “it looks just like the Coliseum!”
“No, it’s not, we are in a totally different area-it’s some kind of circus building”
“Wow, they built it just the same; it looks exactly like the Coliseum!”
It is of course, the Coliseum.

For dinner we decide to head to the Trastevere area, known as the neighborhood where “the real Romans live” We catch a bus there, almost missing it because we have to find a coffee shop to buy the tickets at first. Luckily I’m wearing heels I can run in!

Trastevere has a whole different feel to it, more mellow and intimate, but as the night goes on it gets progressively wilder. One of the favorite hang outs for drinking is an outside bar; attractive young people drape themselves over the sidewalk patio railings and pack the square. We grab a couple of mojitos in plastic cups and enjoy some people watching, inside the bar is a long table filled with tapas which you can help yourself to.