When in Rome, Do The Romans... err Do As the Romans Do

As I said in my last post, Rome was the perfect balance between educational activities and partying. By day, we checked out all of the fantastic sites and by night we went on 2 pubcrawls around the city. Here's the DL on what we did in Rome:

Colosseum:

This was breathtaking. Just 2 subway stops away from our hostel the colosseum is a MUST SEE in your lifetime. It is 12 euros to enter and there are quite lengthy lineups to get into this wonder of the world and so we paid 20 euros to get a tour and skip the line-up. The tour was pretty good and allowed us to get free entrance and a free tour in the Palatino. The Palatino was amazing as well - this "palace" was the largest in Italy for many centuries.

Vatican:

Absolutely my favourite part of the trip thus far. We planned on going to the Vatican for an 9am tour but due to the pubcrawl the night before we decided to go to a later (nonadvertised) tour at 11am. It was the BEST decision ever. Our tour guide was hysterical and very colloquial with his explanations of the history of Christianity and the explanations of the different monuments and works of art. The tour started off with him proclaiming that this would be "the most badass tour group in all of the Vatican" and further, how if we wanted to convert we could make the pilgramage to the monument of Saint Peter in Saint Peters Basilica, rub the right foot and become "the best goddamn Catholics the world has ever seen". When I thought that the tour couldnt get any better he made jokes about a statue of Hercules being called "the Situation", and how one of the angels was sporting "the Shocker".

Pub Crawl 1: Spanish Steps Pubcrawl

This crawl cost 25$ because it was a Saturday and offered a tshirt, all you can drink beer for the first hour and pizza... oh and some free shots at each of the stops. While it was fun, we missed out on the all you can drink beer because the first pub was so far away from the Spanish Steps. I liked this crawl but none of the destinations (there were 4) were close to each other and we ended up walking quite a bit and using a lot of public transportation to get around. Nevertheless, at the second bar, Murphies, we participated in the "Dirty Canadian" competition, which involved the girls to try and run a cold can of beer through a guys pant legs. The guy then had to chug the beer and the first one done won a tshirt. We didn't win but had fun nonetheless. (See pics at the site below.) We ended at a club that took about 20 minutes to get into but it was worth the wait. The club was massive and on the roof of a building. It was a super fun night!

http://www.pubcrawlrome.com/en/page/15/galleryid/276#93

Pub Crawl 2: Rome Pubcrawl

This crawl cost 20$ and I thought it was a much better deal or rather, I got way more free drinks out of it. At the first bar we went to it was all you can drink cocktails, beer or wine. In addition we had free shots at all the locations throughout the night. In addition we received tshirts and pizza at the first stop.