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Rome
Rome was really busy, with lots of people walking, in cars and on scooters. We had to be careful when we crossed the road because of the cars. We looked to make sure there was no cars and held mummy and daddy's hands most of the time. They had ice-cream in Rome too but they call it Gelato, my favourite was chocolate. They don't speak English in Rome so we had to say 'bonjorno' for hello and 'gratzi' to say thankyou. It was hot in Rome, lucky they had water fountains everywhere!
We saw lots of things in Rome mostly churches and they were all really old. They all had paintings on the walls and sometimes on the ceiling. The most special church we saw was the Sistine Chapel, the Pope's special chapel in Vatican City. It had the best painting in the whole wide world on the ceiling. It was of God creating Adam and I saw God's finger touching Adam's. We couldn't take photos so Mummy found this picture on the internet.
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
The Colesseum was like a big stadium and had lots of seats for people to sit and watch the games. They went up really high so everyone could see. It is all broken and fallen down now.
Mummy with Coleseum in the back
Under the Colesseum was tunnels where they kept the fighters, prisoners, gladiators and animals.
We went to Pompei one day to see what it was like to live there. Pompei was a city that got frozen by the ash from a volcano. The people in the city didn't know the volcano was going to erupt so some of them got caught by ash and died and turned into rock.
A street in Pompei made from big volcanic rock. You can see the volcano in the background.
This was a temple that the people would come to worship and offer gifts to their ancient gods.
This was a wine shop where they sold wine and drink from the big bowls in the stone counter.
This is a garden inside a house!! The guide told us only rich people had houses with gardens.
Rich people also decorated their houses with mosaics which is a picture made from lots of little tiles.
This was inside the rich man's house - it was where his servants lived and the kitchen.
He said the roof fell down from all the ash that fell on top.
This is a public toilet - Yuk!!! Rich people had their own.
This is a person who died and is now stone. They put it in a glass box so it doesn't break.
This was a place for all the people to walk around and gather - like a park but no swings.
We also went to the Pope's big church St Peter's Bascilica. It was huge with heaps of paintings, statues and crypts, where they bury old popes. Lydia and I took some photos and said a prayer whilst we were there.
Florence and Venice next.
Love from Heather
