{"id":2221,"date":"2013-09-11T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tostevin.net\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2018-01-01T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T14:14:50","slug":"more-antiqua-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"More Antiqua Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"
We’ve packed in another full day of Ancient Roman sites. It makes up for the rather disappointing day we had yesterday when I was robbed on the Metro. I had my pocket picked and lost my iPhone {deep sob}. Spending a couple of hours in an Italian police station was ‘interesting’. It was like something out of the 1930s … weird.
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Via Appia<\/h2>\n

\"Via<\/a>First off the Appian way … a 16km stretch of Roman road leading into the city. The actual paved highway is still intact in many of the places. All along the road there are memorials, sepulchres and catacombs to the Roman dead. No-one was allowed to be buried in Ancient Rome. Hiring bikes we rode down this most ancient of roads. You can even see the wheel tracks of the roman wagons worn into the flagstones. I have to say that the Ancient Roman bottom must have been made of sterner stuff than ours. Whilst it might have been the cutting edge in road technology then it was still very rough.
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