Roma

was quite a disappointment...

okok
i guess as much
since it's all but ruins
but still...


it was THE city that i wanted to see
yeah
the city of gladiators
of opulent and magnificent structures

i guess i was mistaken
only rubbles
and city city
yeah


certain installations were ok lah
but still
it was waaaay off the mark for me T.T


i think the nxt place for such grandeur is Greece
which hitherto
is not in the pipeline
whatwith my ski trips all lined up


anyway
we saw the coloseum
not much there...

nero's golden house
definitely not worth going!!!!

the mouth of truth
quite cool^^

ancient rome...

palatine hill

Trevi fountain
nice beautiful place

spanish steps
??????

via condotti
shopping street

piazza novono(?)
got 4 fountains there
and got this conster
heng lisa warned me abt strangers trying to tie strings to ur hand...
thn later charge u money for it!!!!

he went
"kombanwa..."
"annyonghasaeyo..."
"ni hao..."
ha

we walked a lot
and took the metro some too

DUN BUY THEIR "24 HR" METRO PASS!!!!
it's a con job!!!!

it's a day pass
not a "24 hr" pass.....

con job
masked by the excuse of lousy interpretation
hai~

also
the metro closes damn bloody early lah
so no pt also

and everywhere is walkable lah

unless it's to vatican city

but yeah
pretty much everywhere is walkable
and u can get a gd tourist map from the tourist offices
which is cool


apparently coloseum used to be a huge pond
courtesy of nero
but his successors tot it too opulent to maintain
and i guess to a certain extent
wants to dismiss his legacy
so they built the coloseum there
yeah

it's the Flavian Theatre
coloseum only cos it's colossal(?)
my guess lah

or did the word colossal came from coloseum?
lol


anyhow
laterz
need to prepare for AFA

keck