Beat the crowds this morning and headed down to the Trevi fountain whilst it was empty there, still plenty of posers with their tripods and selfie sticks taking no end of photos, this one girl did the same four poses about 509 times I wasn't sure why because they would have all looked the same as she didn't move the camera angle. They all proved for VERY great people watching and funny to see the tourist police reactions and facial expressions haha.

After that I went upstairs to the tiny gym and managed a slight run which felt good ensuring to stretch afterwards though for fear of pain or damage to something.

I had breakfast and then headed out later in the morning to the Coliseum and Roman Forum.

Fairly cool walk to the Coliseum however in the sun it was very warm but I managed. I was early to the Coliseum for my ticket call so sat and had a drink in nearby cafe. Wasn't aware that the Coliseum was not only an amphitheatre but housed a community in the underground part of it aswell. Although they filled in and the earthquake filled in best part of the underground pathways and town after a while because it was mostly made of wood so was at risk of catching fire and the earthquakes made it very unstable footings. The Romans would gladiator fight in the amphitheatre and sell/fight their animals for betting or kill people for their crimes. Very big mixed bag of things it was used for. Still very impressive as how they built it and used it. There were graffiti carvings on the spectator seats that were destroyed or broken from war/earthquakes that they had recovered, it's still hard to believe that they did that even back then and a slightly probably better version of us were living and breathing thousands of years ago. Still surreal to me.

The Roman forum was also great to see its where they battled and was a right to passage, entrance gate into the kingdom. The carvings and buildings they made back then were unbelievable, all by hand and chisel. The patience they must have had! Well saying that not much on tele in those days I don't suppose lol.

I stayed nearby for dinner last night, was boiling hot from the day and think my feet had slowly given up on me from the walk yesterday. I also had a very early morning tomorrow.

Rome has been pleasant and great to see a small chunk of it, it's hard to get to grips with all of it as it's a very historic city and you need to be able to understand and be very clued up on all of it or at least the timeline of events.