Back 2000 years in Rome

Dung and I landed in Rome at about 6:30 am and went straight in to action. We grabbed a train in, dropped our stuff off at the hotel and by 9:30 were in front of the Colisseum. We were lucky, that weekend was EU appreciation day or something and all Rome's sights were free admission. Instead of the usual two hour line we waltzed on in with hardly a wait. The Colisseum is pretty amazing, as big as it looks in pictures though still a shell of its former self. Lots of bricks were dismantled from it over the years to build other buildings in Rome, that's why it's got the odd gaps in the high walls. It had been used for things other than gladiator battles over the years as well, and the main field in the center was built up, for what use I have no idea. But it was hard to imagine Russell Crowe doing battle down there with all the brick walls in the way. Impressive just the same.