Day 60 - [R]ome
Too much touring in Rome As I mentioned earlier, I had pre-booked several tours around Rome to make sure that I got to see the important sights with explanations. Today, I had scheduled two such tours: the Colosseum, Roman Imperial Forum, and Palatine Hill, followed by the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basillica. It was always going to be a big day, and it proved to be very big. By the end of the Vatican tour, I was tired, foot sore, and filled to overflowing with information and impressions from the whole day of touring. I learned an important lesson through that busy day: two half-day tours in one day are too much (for me). On reflection, I remember at least one day on the Rhine River cruise involved two touring adventures in a day and it had also been pretty exhausting. I think I have developed a rule of one formal tour a day, for future reference. Also, as usual, I’ve taken hundreds of pictures, that I will sift out for this post. The first tour operat...