Our most recent vacation we decided to go to Rome Italy and have a look around for a few days. We were staying was literally three blocks from Vatican City so we hit the ground got checked in and immediately headed over there to see what there was to see.
We started our travel day at something like 03:30 in the morning from our home city of San Diego California. From San Diego we flew to Washington D.C. and tried to sleep on the plane as much as we could but travel excites us so we were both wide awake. We decided to stay in an Airbnb while in Rome and Eugene our Airbnb host provided very accurate and very detailed instructions about how to get from the airport to his place via the train. We thought it would be an adventure to try and figure out the trains in Italy so we did, but what we didn’t expect was to see was armed security guards with hats that reminded us of Robin Hood walking around the train station.
I’ve never really been able to read Italian all that well like I can other languages and make some sort of sense of what the words are actually supposed to mean. But I was actually quite surprised when we got to Italy to realize that they had enough English printed on the signs that I could get by. Luckily the train schedule on the lighted sign here was pretty easy to read.
After about an hour and changing trains a couple of times we finally arrived at the destination station we were told to arrive at in the instructions from our Airbnb host. And when the train pulled away we had a pretty good idea we were in the right spot because we could see the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in the background.
Walking from the train station to our Airbnb host location was pretty exciting when we hit the train terminal and saw the sign clearly indicating Vatican City, this was a pretty good bet we are headed the right direction.
After making our way to our Airbnb checking in getting slightly settled changing clothes we immediately headed back out the door over to Vatican City to try and catch the Papal address of the afternoon. As we rounded the corner of the entrance to Vatican City we were a little surprised at the line that we saw for all the people waiting to get in.
Once we made it past the metal detector’s into the Vatican square where the Pope was going to give his address we were again really surprised at the amount of people that showed up on this afternoon.
Just to try to illustrate approximately how massive Vatican square is in the crowd that assembles there.
After much anticipation Pope Francis appeared in the customary second window from the right on the top floor of the building behind us in this picture to give his afternoon address to the people waiting in Vatican square.
After Pope Francis’s address to the people in Vatican square the place actually cleared out pretty quick we were really surprised. As we walked around the square we got a few pictures with the various artifacts that are there like this one with the obelisk in the background from 100 A.D. as well as St. Peter’s itself right next to it.
After walking around for a little bit in the Vatican square and noticing the free-flowing natural springs the people were filling the water bottles from we decided it was time for a walk outside the Square in into the streets of Rome to venture forth and see what we could find on this hot summer day. Surprisingly enough there are Gelatera shops almost literally every second or third door in Rome that was really surprising.
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