Roma - our honeymoon

Hello, boy have I missed blogging, but don't you just love coming back to Blogger after a week away and being able to catch up with all your favourite blogs! It's great to read 2 or 3 new posts in a row.

Anyway we had a great time away, missed the boy a seriously hard amount, but we survived, he survived (and actually had so much fun with Nana and Grandad).

Here are our Rome highlights:

The Colosseum

- It was the first place we visited and the one I was most excited about. It didn't disappoint. This building is amazing.
- They started building it in 72AD - 1,940 years ago!
- It was the biggest amphitheatre in the whole of the Roman Empire
- It could seat 50k people
- And those 50k could be in their seats within 10 mins because of all the wide corridors

Italian food

OMG the food was sooooo good
- T lived on pizza, really yummy and I got to have a slice each time :)
- I loved the pasta, the carbona was something amazing, I'm going to try and find a recipe to recreate it. I also had some really good spaghetti with a garlic and chili sauce
- Coffee, it took me a while to get this right (coffee Italiano was espresso, Americano was black) but when I did order a Cafe Americano latte, it was delicious
- Gelato, ice cream is a really big thing in Italy. Every street had a gelateria on it. We went all out on trying as many as we could :) My favourite was coconut and pineapple, but the chocolate and crema (they don't do vanilla) was a close 2nd. T loved the strawberry sorbet, and we were both slightly put off by an 11am lemon sorbet which was basically neat alcohol

Fountains, statues and architecture

Everywhere you turned there was something beautiful, intricate and made from marble
- The Forum was amazing, so many ruins sitting on top of each other
- Animals were everywhere, lots of lions, dragons and eagles
- The fountains in every piazza keep the city cool and beautiful
- The Vatican museum was absolutely stunning and had so many statues, along with painted ceilings, maps and (of course) the Sistine Chapel

The little details

Rome was so beautiful, in April the weather was warm but not overly hot and blossom, lemons, oranges and lilacs were everywhere
- The views across the city were spectacular, the one in the bottom right corner is a view from Palatine Hill across the river to the Vatican and St Peter's
- The Trevi fountain was a real favourite with us, we threw coins in to ensure we return to Rome
- The ceilings in the Vatican museum were beautiful