Ostia Antica

7.01.2012 – Saturday, day 19

It was an absolutely gorgeous winter day today. The sky was blue, the sun shone high and there was not a cloud in the sky! Perfect day to head out to the suburbs and do some exploring, which is exactly what we did. We caught a couple of trains to Ostia Antica and headed to the old Port. Despite the right-ups on this place seeming only average, we managed to turn it into a really fun day and all for under 25 Euro!

We walked, climbed, jumped, ran, hid, stood and lazed around on the ruins of the old port at Ostia Antica. It was such a great day and it was really fun to just do whatever we wanted without getting in trouble. In most places in Rome you can’t touch anything or even have your flash on when taking pictures. It certainly wasn’t the case here…. Ads was climbing over everything like a kid on a new playground!

So after some lunch and a coffee with amazing views, we headed back to town for another spot of shopping, and this time we were successful!

We are leaving early tomorrow morning for Venice, which is about a 4 hour train ride. Rome has been great although it too is slowly being invaded by Indian’s trying to sell their souvenirs on every single street corner! They literally want to sell you everything.. when it’s cold they are selling scarves, when it rains out come the umbrellas and when the sun goes down out come the romantic roses and fluoro / flashing kids toys! At every monument they stand about 10 meters away from each other and try to flog you souvenirs, so in the space of 100mtrs you have been pestered by 10 of them already. Go Away! lol.

Will hopefully be able to get access to some decent WiFi in Venice to Skype everyone.

See you then! 

Me in charge of the map!? YIKES!

View from the top of the old theatre

In the Kitchen as usual!

Having lunch in Ostia Antica

I bet JetStar has never been here..!