7:00 am breakfast at hotel. (awesome food!)
7:30 am guided tour "highlight of the city of Rome"
2:00 pm lunch buffet at Perilli-in-prati
night: Piazza Navona and dinner (take it easy!)
６月２６日（火） ローマ 二日目
今日の午前中はGlobusのツアーに参加します。ホテルまでバスが迎えに来てくれてガイドさん付きで市内をまわります。まず初めはバチカン美術館と聖ペテロ教会を見て回ります。バチカンは団体の人が入るゲートと個人で入る人のゲートが別々にあって、団体の方が早くまた待たなくて入れるのです。個人の人の列はどんどん長くなってきています…。暑いのに大変そうです。
今日はツアーに参加しているので私たちは団体の列へ…。（ありがたい）以前も来たのですがやっぱりシスティーンチャペルは素晴らしかった！ミケランジェロはこのプロジェクトを依頼された時は彫刻家として活躍していたので、画家としてはビギナーだったそうです。フィレンチェからフレスコで有名な画家たちを雇って勉強しながら「アダムの誕生」や「最後の審判」などの名画を残したという…。つまりプロジェクトの初めはビギナーで、最後にはマスターになっているという。なんともすごい事をするミケランジェロさんです。
聖ペテロ教会は世界で一番大きな教会です。今日のバチカンではPopeさんは拝見できませんでした。この前来た時はあの小さな窓から手を振ってましたが…。その後はthe Colosseum and Roman Forumに行きました。コロシアムは中にも入りました。なんとも大きな建物を１０年で作ったと聞いてとても驚きました。あそこで何人のグラディエーターの命が奪われたんでしょうか…？ 昔のローマの人は今より凄いエンターテイメントに慣れていたんでしょうね…。
その後ジョンが行きたがっていたイタリア料理のビュッフェ（日本語ではこう言いますよね？）スタイルのランチへ。色々食べられて良かったですが、一つ一つが凄い美味しい！って訳でもなかったのでちょっと残念でした。一所懸命歩いて来たのになー。
今日一日もいい日でした。ローマはやっぱり凄いです。
Today, we joined our tour group with Globus. They picked us up at the hotel and give us the highlights of the city. First, we went to the Vatican Museum. The note on Vatican Museum is that there are two lines for the entrance. One for individuals and another for tour groups. The one for individuals does not even open couple hours later than tour groups' one and there was a looooooong line already formed 2 hours before the opening for them. So if you don't want to waste your time in Rome, just join some kind of tour group for that day. It's worth it.
3D effect on the flat ceiling.
So many things were built for popes and the whole buildings' decoration was to please them. We had a great tour guide in Rome who knew lots of history and stuff...it was nice to join this group. One of our highlights of this trip was going to Sistine Chapel. I (Keiko) have been there before but I learned a lot more about this amazing place this time. Michelangelo was a sculptor when he started painting the chapel, so he started as a beginner fresco painter, and ended up as the best painter. Of course we got to see "Creation of Adam" and "The last Judgement" etc... and it was so amazing.
St. Peter's Basilica is the largest church in the world...
After that, we went to the Colosseum and Roman Forum. It was amazing to walk on the rocks of streets which was made 2000 years ago. Those rocks are strong! It only took 10 years to build this magnificent entertainment arena.
about 2:00 pm, we went to eat late lunch at Perilli In Prati. John found this restaurant from his favorite book, Rick Steve's book and it was a buffet, so he HAD to go there. Food was not that impressive and we were rather disappointed. But that's okay.
We walked a lot a lot in Rome, and today was not exception. We walked down to Piazza Navona and ate light dinner at this restaurant called, "take it easy" yeah, we know we know...it does not sound Italian at all...but we just wanted to eat salad, so we went there. (though it took them about 30 min. to prepare this salad!) There were street performers at the Piazza and we had fun watching them.
Today was a good day again!
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