Vatican City Travel Blogs

I woke up and had some breakfast and was determined not to be too downbeat from the previous night.  I was off to see Vatican City and the Sistine Chapel, something I've always planned on seeing, and that was making me very cheerful. My plan was for an early start as everything I'd read …

  So today I added another country to my list of visited countries. Vatican City is a sovereign state and regarded as the smallest country in the world. But apart from a statistic it is also a place which I personally had mixed feelings about visiting.   I have no problems with faith…

This is going to be a busy day.  We are going to try to see the highlights of the Vatican Museums and from what I’m reading that’s quite an undertaking as there is very much to see there.  From there I'd like to visit St. Peter's Basilica again and take another look at the Pietà.&nbs…

The Vatican City was beautiful and like many other sights in Rome, it was packed packed packed wih tourists! Only spent not more than half an hour there after we took some pictures. We were just so tired and out of energy. I definitely couldn't miss the Vatican before finishing my Roman trip!

I love the Pope and I'm not even Catholic.  Yeah, the Vatican Museum was awesome...Sistine Chapel, Raphael's 'School of Athens', and Laocoon....but the Pope...wow.  That guy has a following.  I mean...a huge following.  Our group was supposed to visit St. Peter's Basilica today.…

Oh well, That is what made it less crowded most likely.   Wow, the church is so massive!   It was almost overwhelming to take in the beauty of everything inside and out.  I was really in awe of the peace I felt here. We had spent a good hour inside St. Peter's Basilica, l…

Docked in Civitavecchia, third stop of Mediterranean cruise. Also spent 3 days in Rome on driving tour. Highlights: 1. Colosseum & Forum 2. Vatican City (Sistine Chapel & La Pieta) 3. Borghese Gallery 4. Trevi Fountain 5. Spanish Steps 6. Via Veneto

Ciao Bella, Italia!

English version can be found below!   We hadden vandaag een drukke dag voor de boeg dus werd de wekker op zeven uur gezet. Al snel ging het richting ontbijt aan de overkant en daarna terug om tanden te poetsen en de rugzakken te pakken en daarna konden we op pad. Het eerste doel van vandaag …

Italy 2006

After 10 years twiddling my thumbs in Birmingham I'm now 14 months into a grand journey around this wonderful & widest of worlds! I've been all over (well a small slice of the planet anyway) with occasionally little rhyme or reason but have finally washed up in the country longed for by my dreams... INDIA! Please join me and give further purpose to my steps by smiling any time at my words, thoughts and pics; it really means a lot to this happy though oft-lonely traveller ;D

Some random pics from my random travels

As a Christian believer , seeing St. Peter's Square from afar gave outright mixed emotions.  I felt honoured and privileged.  I was touched and humbled in more ways than one.  Outside the basilica, people were not minding the heat of the sun as they queue the long…

It might be the smallest country, but it’s full of art!   I wanted to see as much as possible; therefore I woke up early and left the hostel really really early. I might have been in a hurry, but didn't forget not to wear shorts and wear some kind of sleeves, so I'd be able to go into t…

After crossing the river we walked to Via della Consiliazione (Road of the Conciliation). The street is roughly 500 m in length, and it connects Saint Peter's Square to the Castel Sant'Angelo. The road as it looks today is not as old as one could imagine. It was constructed between 1936 and 19…