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Jeremy Koh
2005-11-05 11:48:59

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Sam there. But they're still within the Coliseum. Thus, we decided to make use of our ticket to enter Palatine Hill (our admission fees to the Coliseum includes entry to Palatine Hill).

Palatine Hill is the centermost of the legendary seven hills on which Rome was founded. It's also one of the most ancient parts of the city. Apparently Rome has its origins in Palatine Hill and people have lived here since approximately 1000 BC. Of course it's all in ruins now. With not much time to spare, we decided to do a fast-forward tour of the place. The entrance was near the Arch of Titus. On Palatine Hill, we saw mostly ruins of palaces and homes of the rich. With not a lot of background knowledge of the place, it wasn't very interesting. Somehow I thought that the famous Etruscan bronze statue of the She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was found here and so we went around asking people. Finally one guy told us that it was in Capitoline Hill. Well, no chance of seeing it then. Very soon, it was time to meet Sam and Mel before meeting the rest at Termini. We sped down Palatine Hill to meet Sam and Mel in front of the Coliseum. They were already there.

It was too late to do any more sightseeing. They decided to go to Termini Station to meet the rest while we pick up our luggage from our hostel. After picking up our bags from the hostel, we made our way to Termini, a huge train station that's reputedly the haunt of pickpockets. As a result, we were extremely cautious and fortunately, nothing happened to us. At Termini, we met up with the rest, got our tickets and boarded the train to Arezzo.

Ten days later, we were back in Termini Station. We had taken the early morning train from Arezzo. As we had to board the Terravision shuttle bus to the airport early next morning, we decided to find the boarding location first. Easy enough, it was just outside Termini. With that settled, we made our way ...