Today I gave in and bought a 2-day ticket to the Palatine, Forum, and Colosseum. I hit the first and third today and will (theoretically) do the Forum in the morning tomorrow, when the sun stays out of our business a bit. There were plenty o' tourists but not an overwhelming number, and I entered from the Palatine which is apparently what everybody skips (come on, tell me you've heard of the Palatine before just now! thought not...). Here are some pics. If you haven't heard of the teeny bathroom up a ladder that makes the Colosseum so famous, well, then, you don't know the real story.
No actually that picture is from my lunch place, a panini (sandwich) shop with a sign out front for 2.50 euro panini (less than $4). I was hooked. Of course, by the time I decided to eat there, at the little bar facing a wall, and purchase Fanta, Coke, and a bag of potato chips, it was considerably more than that. The shopkeeper gave me a convoluted story about the upcharge for each item because I decided to eat in.
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