good morning from Rome Italy yesterday we flew all the way from Alexandria
to Rome and today is our first full day exploring this amazing city we're super
excited to be here because we have been here before a few years ago in 2017 and
we want to see how it compares now to how it did back there i'm so happy to be here
first things first figuring out the metro
so far the only difference we've noticed for pre and post covered rome everyone wears a
mask on public transport do you like Italy i love you Italy is one of my favorite places
in the world i just adore every part of it the history the people the food i love it
i can hear the Trevi fountain
last time we were here it was probably about 20 minutes earlier but it was also winter
so we were pretty much alone it was still quite dark i managed to dunk my head in the fountain
we have these amazing photos where it's literally just us at the trevi fountain and now even though
it is still just 6am there's a few people here good to see the people are starting to come back
i am in such a good mood now i just love the Trevi Fountain and it's so
fun being there early when there's hardly anyone there because if you go
in the afternoon it's gonna be packed and this is why you come early in the morning
but now our next stop is one of Jordan's favorite photos he's ever taken the pantheon
back in 2017 i just got a new phone that was okay in lower light and i was obsessed so i
started taking a bunch of photos when we were in Rome and i thought they turned out really good
looking back they're okay we've gone back to the same place that took those photos to see
if we can take some more this is why i love Rome we're not even looking for it
but there's just history all around you and we're walking past this amazing old building
it's a pretty cool place i like it here a lot so i only know two things about Pantheon one is
that it is one of the best preserved ancient roman ruins and that's because it's been in
continuous use since like the 7th century and the second is that there's a hole in the roof as
a source of natural light we can't go in because we're two hours too early from our opening so i
think we're going to run around some more either come back this afternoon or come back tomorrow
so another difference we've noticed about Rome back in 2017 we did not see
any of these e-bikes or scooters or anything like that but there is so
many around the city now it's such a cool way to get around we might get one later
this was the first building that kind of took our breath away when we were here in 2017
and now it serves as a point where we first see the Colosseum
we just passed a cafe that when we were here in 2017 we stopped and had breakfast at which has
an awesome view of the Colosseum now we're in a bit more of a tighter budget probably can't
afford that so we're gonna go find some cheaper coffee elsewhere so when we're here in 2017 we
came up to this ledge had breakfast and then some lovely lady got way into taking our photo
for us so we have these amazing photos by the Colosseum they seem to be doing a lot of work
that definitely wasn't happening back in 2017. i don't even know where you line up
to go in anymore because i swear it was just down there but we're just enjoying the view
so
we've elected not to do the Colosseum or the roman forum today just because we've
done it before and it's a bit outside of the budget now that we're traveling so now we're
down at the arch of constantine which is just beautiful and so intricately detailed
on our way to the only other free thing we can think of which is circus maximus
so circus maximus is closed at the moment it was kind of the coliseum before the coliseum
they hosted the games there and had more athletic events there too interesting
fact is that this old one could actually hold more people and they're still using it today
so this place has been continuously in use for 2,600 years that's insane
so we've made it into the Pantheon now it is so beautiful in here all of the detail and
everything is insane the paint paintwork that's all around the sculptures it's just beautiful
we also just learned that it's called the pantheon because everyone was allowed to
worship him so 'pan' everyone 'theon' god's so you can worship any god here
i'm so glad we came back to go in it wasn't that much busy than i remember it back in
2017 so that's good now we're going to the piazza and hopefully we can get a gelato
to end our day like we did many many times on our trip in 2017
we've gotten a gelato and we're gonna go sit in the piazza and enjoy