On the train to Rome. The trains clip along the Italian countryside at 250 km/hr, or about 170 mph. They're very comfortable and quite fun to ride. Italy is beautiful and reminiscent of rural parts of America.
Colosseum. You get a feel for how large it is looking at the ant-like tourists, gawking and baking in the Roman sun (A scorcher that day. Of course we live in Seattle, sooo). Anyway the Colosseum is really quite a site.
The interior of the Colosseum. It's creepy actually, when you realize that the compartments were used to store prisoners and wild animals. They fed the lions human flesh so they would give the crowd a show when released on prisoners in the arena. It was built in ten years, from 70 - 80 AD.
Julius Caesar was executed at this site (really).
Bernini's Elefantino statue, near the Pantheon. The tour book told us to visit it. It illustrates the absurdity of life, apparently. I sort of get this after trying to find it...
Spanish Steps.
Trevi Fountain.
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