We don't really plan that well. Before coming to a city we might have a few ideas about what we want to see or where we want to go, but usually we go to the city and look at a map which tells us what to do and where to go and we plan our day while eating breakfast, OR we just get lost in the city and stumble over some amazing things.
The same was the case when we went to Rome. We didn't really have any idea what we were going to do. When I skyped home on Tuesday (I actually got to talk to everyone for a decent amount of time...) Dad mentioned something about the Appain Way, the oldest road in Rome dating back to the Roman Empire and even the apostle Paul walked along it on his way to Rome. Figuring that we had pretty much seen all of Rome in the wandering and walking and getting lost we had done in the past few days I looked it up this morning and also discovered that the catacombs come right off the road. So that is what we did today.
Unfortunately the road itself it really busy with traffic and there are walls of either side so it wasn't that safe to walk along to road for that long... maybe further along it would have been nicer but we didn't go there (obviously). BUT we went inside the catacombs instead, which was really fascinating. We had a guide (we couldn't go inside without one) and wandered through the tunnels listening to stories about the crypts, people buried in them and what happened there previuosly. It was all very interesting. Unfortunately we couldn't take any pictures inside but it was really really interesting hearing about some of the really early christian history also.
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