Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Vatican, Wedding and earthquake

So, the Vatican Museum and the Sixtine Chapel... finally made it! Luckily, the queue was quite short, the problem was more the amount of people inside, but that's hard to escape. The best strategy is to spot an empty space between two organised tour groups and get lucky. Anyway, we didn't visit all the museum, we'll go back on the days when the entrance is free. It is huge, and very crowded, long corridors so lots of walking (7km in total if you do all of it), but so much to see... mainly statues of the Roman era, and paintings from the Renaissance. Of course the more than famous Sixtine Chapel with the Last Judgement (we actually bought the puzzle of that, afterwards I'll be an expert on that painting), the Rafael rooms, loads of statues where you can test your knowledge of roman gods... But when you get out you're really happy. With us came Bori and a friend of hers travelling to Rome with his parents. So basically it meant me being the only one not hungarian speaker. For lunch we went to one of those tourist-trap restaurants right next to the Vatican, and it proved to be just what we expected: a tourist-trap. The food definitely won't stay long in my memory, the service was poor, and it was a bit too expensive.
On Friday morning, I woke up at 5:30 and took my plane to Geneva. It almost felt like one of those many week-ends taking the train home, really since you don't need a ticket, no passport, I didnt have any luggage... The week-end was great, specially catching up with my friends and seeing one of them getting married! The youg married couple looked just like you would imagine: so beautiful and so happy. The best of luck to them for the future!
And now, back in Rome where I was greeted by a nice storm in the night, and rain ever since. Back to work as well. Highlight of yesterday: a small earthquake (4.5 on Richter) which shook Rome and got some people really panicked according to the newspapers, as Rome usually doesnt get earthquakes. But mainly just 5 seconds of trembling walls and no damage.
All the following pictures are from the Vatican museum.

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