After the weekly news rant @donwoods tells @vincetracy about his invitation to meet #thepope and memories of his visit to #Rome with #MontyLister from #BBC #RadioMerseyside .......This week's "there and back in a day" feature from my days on Radio Merseyside with Monty Lister takes us to Rome...6.30 in the morning we took off from Speke Airport in
Liverpool arrive in Rome around 9.30....to say Rome is stunning is an understatement....everywhere you look is famous....we were taken on a guided tour of the city with Monty doing his commentary and me recording him....first we saw the Trevi Fountain (made famous by Sinatra's Three Coins)....it is a lot smaller than you expect but magnificent....then past the Spanish Steps with rows of tourists sitting on them enjoying the sunshine...then off to the Pantheon which is spectacular....and you have to wonder how the dome was built with the equipment they had back then....apparently
when Michael Angelo walked in and looked up he said it had to have been built by aliens.....we then went to the Vatican which is unbelievable...
