Day 7 - Exploring Rome in the evening

Late this afternoon we decided to head out for a stroll - our ultimate location was a restaurant that Dean and Emma had recommended........................this picture below was a little random - but cool

As we were walking the boys had their first glimpse of the Colosseum - there were whoops and jumps for joy - it was so cool to see their excitement.  Loki had done a power-point and both boys were looking forward to exploring it and hearing about it on our tour tomorrow.

We then continued on our travels heading to the pantheon and then wandered across through Piazza Novona which was very cool with entertainers, music and artists and then on to our restaurant.

We also came across this amazing building = The 'Altar of the Fatherland' (Altare della Patria) is the largest national monument in Italy. The monument was originally designed to commemorate King Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy. He was the first king of Italy and was known as the 'Gentleman King' and the 'Father of the Nation'. 

The 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' was added on November 4th, 1921. 

There are some great views -

We then continued onto our restaurant for the night - Taverna and Vineria - best food so far in Italy.





After dinner we caught a taxi home - taxis are very cheap in Italy compared to France - yay!