Rome 3

Oh man. Talk about sore feet, day three tried me the hardest. The idea was to hit up in this order:

St. Peter in Chains (the chains and a Michaelangelo sculpture of Moses)
Pyramid (yes, in Rome, a ridiculously rich man decided he wanted one for his tomb)
Via Appia and the Catacombs
National Museum of Rome

It went as planned for the first two steps, taking the metro out to successive monumental awesomeness. However, after the Pyramid I went the wrong direction on a street with a shockingly similar name to the right direction :) In short, I decided not so much that I was lost that I was about to turn around and head back when I saw San Paolo's Basilica. Sweet. So I went in had picture time and then caught the metro back up to the pyramid and then went the proper direction (on foot of course)...about half an hour later I decided I should be about "there" and got off of the highway (and sidewalk) to check out where I was (this was all off of the free map of central rome). Let's just say that the Via Appia is no longer pedestrian friendly...no sidewalk. at all. the catacombs were about a mile and a half south of where I joined the deathroad.

The catacombs were fantastic, no bones to handle though. oh...and I definitely took the bus back. reduced the suckage immensely. I accidentally found another huge basilica (at the san giovanni metro stop), very cool. Then off to the museum as planned, except well, the branch I wanted to go to at the Diocletian baths is only open from 9-2. wtf mate!?

I then went back to the hostel and had to just relax. Three days of hard hoofing around Rome can take it out of you so I just crashed and talked with an Aussie girl for a while, had dinner in and just chilled...and wished I had an ice bath for my feet.