** HISTORICAL POST** Been sitting in draft for months...
Another day started in the luxury of the Hilton. After a light breakfast, we set out on "mission impossible"... to see the rest of Rome in one day. There was a plan and some amount of will power. We started by having the shuttle drop us at piazza del Popolo. We saw two amazing churches and then headed south. We visited several monuments and went back to Trevi fountain. From there, it was off to the Pantheon. Just south of there is the piazza of Minerva with another amazing church. The next stop on the tour was Piazza Novana where we had lunch. It is not recommended since the quality isn't the best and the prices are higher than other areas. After lunch, we headed to campo de Fiori, a fruit market. While there, we picked up a fake Prada bag for €10. Our tour continued to teatro marcello and then to Campidoglio. We then walked to the church built on the site where St. Peter was imprisoned. The hole in the ground is right next to the roman forum. As we meandered through the forum, we were hit with another brief rain shower. We finished seeing the forum and made a lap around the colosseum. We then walked a half mile to the piazza bocca with the large stone mouth were romans were said to deposit complaints about each other. From there, we took a high speed walk (with a few wrong turns) to the hard rock cafe for dinner. After dinner, we took a very slow walk back down to the shuttle stop. According to the pedometer, we walked 26837 steps. That translates to about 10 miles or more! It's time for a foot massage!! So far on this this, we've walked an estimated 43 miles. Once back at the hotel, we did a load of laundry in the sink. No wonder man invented washing machines! Drying clothes with a hair dryer is also quite the adventure.
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