HAIL ROMA!!!

What better way than to spend the Diwali weekend (Happy Diwali Everyone!!) in a city that houses one of the most studied civilisations of ancient times and the smallest country in the world (VaticaN) which is Home to none other than the Pope!

In one word all that i can say for ROME is WOW!!!
Its one thing to have ancient ruins and another to make them look beautiful probabaly as much or even more than when they were made...

Our trip started with a whirlwind visit into Modena enroute to Maranello which is the home of Ferrari and the Ferrrari factory!
After getting kicked outta there we headed back to railway station and took an overnighter to ROMA!
Hitting rome early in the morning we checked into the hostel and then moved on to the vatican, the world's smallest country!

Once there we caught up on the church and the museum of the vatican which has the sistine chapel painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling amongst many many amazing things :-) but it took a grueeling waait and a loong time to reach the chapel through sevral exhibits and halls all over the museum.

After the museum we moved on to see the anicent Roman civilisations, main amongst them being the Colloseo, The Pantheon and The Tevori fountain!
All this was on Diwali day and it didnt feel like it at all, though we were constantly remimded of it by each other.

We headed home totally tired and exhusted as it was wasily the biggest city and the one with max number of places to see and a lot of tourists!

The next day we took a train to Pisa to see the Leaning tower of Pisa (what else) ;=)
This was a small detour but toally worth it as the city was gr8 and there was a HUge street market to go through when we walked back to the railway station!

and just by the time we had picked up some Italian, with our share of Ciao, Grazis and Statiozione we had to take the train back home

Italy was beautiful with a great mix of cities like Rome,Venice, Pisa and Milan..... fast cars, beautiful girls and a great sense of fashion along a backdrop of ancient structures and churcches that dont cease to amaze!

I love the country and its pplaces.... (hope the coin in tevori fountain brings me back there soon ) :-)