Day 44 Rome

11 June
Our aim was to try and miss the crowds to visit the Vatican city. We arrived in the area around 1030 and stopped for coffee and some delicious pastries. We then explored around the castel st angelo. We headed toward the Vatican city around midday trying to avoid all the people selling tours that "cut the lines". The lines were not too bad, less than 20 minutes to get in. We saw lots of beautiful art including the sistine chapel where we sat for half an hour listening to an audioguide we had downloaded before we left our accommodation. The guide explained a lot about michaelangelo and the story of the panels around the chapel. After the Vatican museum we went to St Peter's basilica where we also listened to another downloaded audioguide. The proportions of the cathedral were crazy, the nave around 2 American football fields long and the bronze arch over the altar was 7 storeys high, you can see in the last photo but my phone camera does not capture the scale.