3 days in Rome

After three days in Rome, it’s good to be home to some wireless internet, working electrical outlets, and Coke that doesn’t cost $4.50.

Our first day we arrived at 7:53am and had a whole day ahead of us (despite being up for 16 hours already). We headed first to our hotel located on Via Nazionale and then went straight to Vatican City. With the help of one of the coolest iPhone/iPod Touch apps I’ve ever seen we took our audio guide app and headed into the Vatican Museum, ultimately arriving at the Sistine Chapel.

Thursday we visited the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain. Later that night we went back to the Colosseum where I made a time exposure of the traffic there (see last photo in this post). I didn’t take a tripod but set my camera in the middle of the street on top of a road cone and fired away 30 seconds at a time.

Friday was our last day and we rounded out our trip by seeing the Pantheon and a few other sights around town. We found some wifi that day and I posted a few iPhone images right from the iPhone Wordpress application that you can see here.

I hope you enjoy the pictures I made over the past few days.

A cross placed by Pope Benedict the 14th marks the middle of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

The dome of the famous St. Peter’s Basilica inside Vatican City.

A closer look at the dome of the famous St. Peter’s Basilica.

A statue rests in the Pio-Clemention Museum in the Galleries of the Statues in Vatican City on Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

The exit staircase of the Vatican Museum.

Unique Pine trees surround the gardens of Palatine next to the Forum in Rome, Italy.

The chains that once held St. Peter inside the St. Peter in Chains church in Rome, Italy.

A view of Basilica of Saints Ambrose & Charles on the Via del Carso as seen from the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. The next picture is the inside of the church.

The Basilica of Saints Ambrose & Charles located on the Via del Corso in Rome, Italy.

The ceiling over the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy.

A stone courtyard outside the Castel St. Angelo.

The Pantheon in Rome, Italy.

An Italian police officer walks down platform 2 of the Roma Aeroporta train station at Fiumicino International Airport in Rome, Italy on Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

Unique Pine trees surround the gardens of Palatine Hill next to the Forum in Rome, Italy.

The temple of Saturn (left) in the Forum in Rome, Italy.

A view of Via Condotti as seen from the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy.

A view of Via Condotti as seen from the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy.

Windows on Via del Pantheon in Rome, Italy.

People walk across the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy.

The world famous Roman Colosseum is surrounded by traffic on Via dei Fori Imperiali on Thursday, January 14, 2010 in Rome, Italy.

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