Roma

Rome

Arrived in Cittevechia at 7:00am. Boarded our bus for the 1.5 hour ride to Rome by 7:45. Turns out the ride was more like 2 hours with rush hour traffic. Rome being inland on the seven hills. 
The traffic is something else to watch. We have decided there are no laws governing motorscooters and motorcycles. They travel between cars at will and always percolate to the front at stoplights. Cars are, mostly, the size of the Fiat 500 and the BWM Smart car. All small. They need to be to traverse some of the back streets of Rome. The bus drivers though receive the award for driving. They negotiate their behemoths with inches to spare on the the expressways and in the town centers. They can parallel park their 50 foot bus in a length 10 feet longer then their bus. They are magicians!
Rome, for those asking, is all uphill. It could be due to the prior day's walk in Florence/Pisa and/or it could be due to the fact that the whole town is uphill. 
We walked all over with a map made in hell. The roads on the map made no sense and the printing was fuzzy, with or without my glasses which have finally made a spectacle of themselves and become a pair of monocles. Without the aid of said map we stumbled on most of what we wanted to see missing only the Spanish Steps which i called the "Roman Steps" when i inquired to their whereabouts(how embarrassing) and the Vatican, due to a Metro strike which ended at 2:00pm, the time we were on our way back to the ship.
Fear not, i tossed my coin in the Trevi fountain and wished for World peace,(shush, don't tell or it won't come true) so look for a brighter tomorrow... tomorrow.
Where we have stopped we were happy with our time in each city. We think that you can see them in one day with a thought to come back if it tickles you. However... you can not see Rome in one day, period.