Kermit in Rome

Last summer, Conny, Markus, and I spent two wonderful days in Rome. It was our first visit in this beautiful city, so we were very curious to see all the historic sites.

The most famous place of interest in Rome is the Colloseum and
this was also the first stop.

The Colloseum is really huge and so incredibly old.

Here I am in front of the Colloseum, I was very happy to see that
it was possible to go inside.

“Wow, that’s amazing!!”

“Look, how big it is!”

Someone said, that frogs are not allowed to enter the Colloseum.
Silly guy! Of course that is not true.

I wanted to take a look behind this fence to see if I can discover
one of these ancient gladiators… but there was nothing interesting.

Here I am posing for some other tourists. Hehe, that was a lot of fun!

After visiting the Collosum, I took a look into the guidebook…

Rome has so many interesting places to see, it’s hard to decide
what to see next.

We decided to visit some of the ancient places of the historic
city center of Rome.

It was really interesting to see all these historic places.

“Ooooh, that’s a statue of Cesar!”

“Veni, vidi, vici!” – I felt like Caesar, the famous
Roman political leader.

And the weather was great too. Look at the blue sky!

We had some time left before the sightseeing bus tour started,
so I took a nap.

We drove with a huge bus and from the upper level we had a
great view.

We saw a lot of nice places and streets.

The sightseeing tour was awesome and
we had a lot of fun.

Out of the sudden, we stopped.

There was an accident in front of us which caused a traffic jam.
We were not able to continue the tour.

Conny and I checked where we were – unfortunately we were too
far away from a subway station, so we decided to stay on the bus.

While we were stucked in the traffic jam, I enjoyed the great weather.

The sun was burning and it was really hot. Too hot…

I needed to cover my head with a tissue to avoid
getting sunburned.

As you can imagine, I was very happy when
the tour continued.

After the bus tour, we were hungry. I was up for peanuuuuts!

In front of the restaurant, I discovered a cow. Too bad that
the cow was not real… Yeeehaaaa!!!

On the way back to our hotel, I called Ms. Piggy
and told her what we have seen on our
first day in Rome.

In the hotel, we watched some TV. We were very tired, because
it was a long day.

On the next morning I tried to read an Italian newspaper, but
my Italian was not good enough to understand anything –
the pictures were nice though…

In the breakfast room I saw these gorgeous flowers.
Aaaahh, they smelled really good!

Before we started with the sigtseeing tour, Conny and I checked
out the latest comments on my website.

We saw a lot of nice places, like this one.

Here we are in front of the famous Spanish Steps at the
Piazza di Spagna.

And here I am sitting in front of one of these very nice Italian
restaurants. Rome has a lot of them!

This is the Trevi Fountain, which is the most
famous fountain in Rome. It is quite impressive
but unfortunately there were so many
tourists that it was impossible to take a picture
which shows the entire fountain.

I really liked the colorful houses.
The red-orange color behind me
is typical for houses in southern Italy.

Here I am sitting at one of the numerous places in Rome. There is
always a lot to see.

This place was huge…

…and there were so many restaurants. We were hungry, so we
decided to have lunch.

After the lunch we continued with our sightseeing tour at the
Forum Romanum. This is the central area of the ancient City of Rome.

Compared to me, most of the buildings
were gigantic.

I was wondering whether a lot of frogs lived in ancient Rome…

As on the day before, the temperatures were quite high and I was
happy when I saw this refreshing fountain.

We were really impressed by the central place, on which
the oldest and most important structures of the city were built.

Here I am in front of one of the numerous historic buildings.
Does anyone know which building it is?

The building behind me seemed to be an important one, but I
forgot which one it was. We saw too many buildings on that
day to remember them all…

After a couple of hours of sightseeing, we needed a short break.

Then we continued with the last point of interest for the day:
Vatican City, the smallest country in the world.

Here I am right in the center of Vatican City, at the Saint
Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro)

It is a very religious place… I asked the pope
to get out, but he did not answer…

On our way back to the hotel, we had a short break at the bank of
the Tiber river. What a nice place…

We passed the Colloseaum once again and Markus took
this nice picture.

Once we arrived at the hotel, I could not wait to write a letter to
Ms. Piggy to tell her about the great time we had in Rome.

3 Responses to “Kermit in Rome”

Joseph
August 22nd, 2009

I love your stories. As I am a big Kermit fan and only recently discovered these short stories I will continue reading and look forward to more of Kermits adventures. The photos taken in Italy are breathtaking!! I visited Italy in 1984 so your photos bought back a lot of memories.

Continue posting as I am sure you have made many Kermit fans out there very happy.

Sincerely

Joseph (from Australia).
Markus
August 28th, 2009

Hi Joseph, thank you very much for this kind comment. We are happy to hear that you like our stories. We have many more photos which we have not yet posted online and we have also planned the next trips, so there will be much more stories in the future. We are even planning to come to Australia next year.
We will do our best to continue to make Kermit fans out there happy.

Best regards,
Kermit, Conny and Markus
Katherine
September 8th, 2009

Oh Kermit, I was so glad to see the other photos that were not in your Webshot album. What a good tour that must have been! I bet Miss Piggy was pretty jealous that she didn’t have a chance to go too. I kept wondering what you bought. I saw you with your shopping bag, so did you bring Miss Piggy back something from Rome? On to your next venture! Katherine