Rome is burning 🔥

It was an extremely hot one today

 

Not sure whether this is accurate but there was another in a different area of the city indicating it was +42, whatever it was a sweltering hot day and looking around there were plenty of others wilting in the heat.

Luckily there are numerous fountains and drinking taps around with cold water flowing which allows you to fill a bottle, wet your head and hands, soak your headwear and if a member of the local police isn’t around dip your feet into the water.

Despite the heat we had a good day starting off by wasting a good amount of time completing a police report at a nearby Carabinieri office where the cop taking the report was as disinterested as one would expect doing a mountain of paperwork for an event that would have no outcome.

We then commenced our own walking tour of Rome firstly by once again walking through St Peter’s square and the thing that struck us this time was the length of the queue which snaked literally halfway round the outside of the square.

While not clear in these photos if one joined the four photos together the queue goes from the centre of the first photo being the entrance to the cathedral right around the outside of the square until the last person in the queue would look straight down the square to the first person in the queue- how long before they entered one wouldn’t know.

I have also taken a video of the queue which is available at https://youtu.be/99inHLn7bgU?si=StOswSP8mGRGK7ZC

We then went to Piazza Navona the largest piazza in Rome

 via Castelo Sant Angelo

and then to the Pantheon 

again queues for Africa and then onto the Trevi Fountain 

 Slowing in the heat we got to the Spanish Steps

which was less crowded as everyone was either dousing themselves at the fountain or in the shade across the street.

Having taken advantage ourselves of the fountain we moved onto Piazza del Popolo

And then making our way back home, again through St Peter’s Square but not before we were ripped off at a cafe on Piazza Risorgimento where we were charged €13 ($NZD23.75) for a decaf Americano and a can of coke.

A satisfying day achieved by walking 12.5kms!

We wonder what tomorrow will bring.

Kms driven to date 5389

Kms walked to date 678.5 estimate 

Spent on Diesel €340.53 (estimate before trip €479)

Highest price paid to date for diesel €1.84/L Matera

Lowest price paid to date for diesel €1.479/L Freiburg

Spent on tolls €118.40 (estimate before trip €103.00)