Monday, December 19, 2005

DAY 16: Vatican Museums... Strike 3

We woke up and went to check out. When we asked the woman at the reception (not the same woman a different one) if we could leave our stuff she said it's 3 euros each. Now this isn't a lot of money, but out of principle we couldn't accept it. Every hostel offered this service for free.
After talking to Canada, we were told the Romania had a man over all night and he had yelled at the Hostel owner about this. They were pissed off! Apparently Brazil had been charged way too much for the night, compared with the Canadians.

So we cunningly put our stuff in the Canadian's room. when the woman saw us leaving without our bags, she was real pissed hehehehe.

We went to the Vatican Museums, in the Rain, but there was a queue all along the Vatican walls. Half of the people wouldn't even to get in before it closes, so we had no chance. We walked around really sad that we had no chance of seeing the Museums.

We then went to check out thr train schedule, and headed back to the Hostel where wer found the Canadians, the Brazilian and Egyptian outside with all their stuff and ours too! They were leaving the wretched place (except Egypt who liked the place).
We agreed to meet later on for a couple of beers.

We headed to an eatery were we got a lovely pizza. Then we went to see a couple of things we had missed on our first visit; the Cappucin Crypt, which is adorned with the bones of the monks; and the Church of Maria della Vittoria, which we had already seen but not properly.
In this church there's Bernini's statue of the Ecstasy of St Teresa, which is featured in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons (lol everything we visited was in this stupid book). Suppost the bad guys burns a guy in the church.

We met up with the Canadian's in Piazza della Republica where we got a couple of drinks and exchanged contact info.

Then we headed to the Train Station and got on our train to Sicily.

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