December 6th - 12th
Italy, Rome
Tuesday the 7th

This was at the Liverpool Street Train Station
HAHAHAHA

Walkin to my hostel

Actually, I'm trying to find the right street at this point

Hostel room window

My bed, backpack, jacket, and map

Those designs above the door... we're in the Planet of the Apes room.
That's the scene at the end where the Statue of Liberty is underground

Walkin to the Colluseum

Umm... some old rock thing...

I think this was a museum of some sort

So if you read Italian... you know what this says...
I don't

There are a ton of these used book stands here in Rome
I guess they do a lot of reading here

ohhhhh
San Maria Maggiore

Anti war graffiti

They don't like America here either

See... everyone in Europe is pissed at the US

Kill Bush...
Hateful graffiti or good idea?

The Colluseum

Pretty big

It was late afternoon by the time I got there

Every country has one of these damn Archs... I swear

I tried to get a low angle shot with the stone walkway

But, it was hard to do since there were a ton of people around

So I eventually gave up...
This one came out ok though

I think this one is my favorite

Handheld shot, woo hoo!

An asian guy offered to take my picture for me
Thanks man!

Right after this I decided to pay to get inside
They didn't take credit card, so the guy ended up just letting me in for free

Ohhhh, cool huh?

They have all sorts of walkways built over the floor of the arena

It's crazy seeing the area below where they moved the people and animals around

These stair were pretty big, unlike anywhere in London, haha

I need to look up why half this is destroyed...

Isn't that cool??
Come on, you know it is

View from the Colluseum

hahahaha, SCAFFOLDING!!

All this area used to be built out with more bleachers for people to stand
In the middle of the photo (vertically) you see two sets of stair remains.
These were used to access the "cheap-seats" where the woman and children stood; only the men were allowed to sit

If you can't tell from a lot of my pictures, I like back lit shots

One of four stones they believed to be at each main entryway

Um, I guess they're excavating something here

HAHAHAHA
It's the "exit sign" person running to a computer

Here's the main Train Station

All these black dots... are thousands of birds flying around
You wanted to just stand and look up and watch... but you didn't... you know what I mean?