Vatican

Today Ivar was improved enough to visit the Vatican before leaving Rome. We left early in the morning to beat the crowd (ha!) and arrived after a slow walk (Ivar was fragile) to long lines for the Sistine Chapel. We visited St Peter's hoping the line would go down once they opend.

St Peter's was enormous, and even at 9 am on a weekday it was already crowded.




We left St Peter's and discovered the line for the Chapel had doubled and was over a kilometre long....We made a hard decision to cut the Chapel in order to arrive in Naples before dark - and to avoid a long hard wait in the Roman heat. We said goodbye to Rome around lunchtime and headed for coastal Naples.