After leaving the Colosseum we went for a wander along the Tiber River before heading back into town and eventually stumbled upon...

...this - some ruins occupied by cats! They're everywhere in there!

Well that's good to know.

It's a hard life.

This one was getting stuck into a mouse or something.

The Trevi Fountain, standing 26 metres high, 20 metres wide, and depicting "Neptune's chariot being led by Tritons with sea horses representing the moods of the sea" according to Lonely Planet. This spot is always swarming with tourists. The custom is to throw a coin into the fountain (over your shoulder while facing away) to ensure your return to Rome; a second coin grants a wish. An estimated €3,000-worth of coins are hurled in every day (and collected for charity)!

The massive Pantheon, built in 126 AD on the site of the original Pantheon that was destroyed in a huge fire in 80 AD. It was dedicated to all the gods of ancient Rome. The Pantheon is the best-preserved building of its time, and two thousand years after it was built the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height of the dome and the diameter of the interior circle are the same - 43.3 metres, so the whole interior would fit exactly within a cube (alternatively, the interior could house a sphere 43.3 metres in diameter - fun fact for the day :)

Many Italian kings are buried here.

And right across the piazza from the Pantheon: a bloody McDonalds! Geez, have they no respect?!

A few night shots: the gorgeous Villa Borghese - a massive parkland in the north of town...

The Spanish Steps (in Italy) - always full of tourists and linking Piazza di Spagna below with another piazza and a church up the hill...

Trevi Fountain (with Mum and Jared hurling some of those €3,000 in)...

And some building that I keep forgetting the name of, which I think is a museum, along with some ruins next door.

Free shot at the door - down it goes!

It's great being a man ;)