Birthday in Rome

We are in Rome today and doing our own thing via a combination of Celebrity rail transfer and hop-on hop-off bus arranged with Viator. We arrived at San Pietro station at 10:00 and followed our guide around St Peters Square to avoid the large crowds attending the outdoor Wednesday mass. Nice cheap coffee and croissant in side street cafe before catching the HoHo opposite Castel Angela. We spent an hour on the bus before hop off at the Coloseum, then walked by Circus Maximus (no Chariots today) to hop on bus and return to start. Walked back over the river Tiber  taking photos, chatting to bride on photoshoot and making our way to Les Ettoiles terrace restaurant near St Peters. We celebrated my birthday with champagne, arrancini and prawns while taking in the spectacular panarama. We wandered back via St Peters square, the masses were now queuing to get into the basilica and museum, to rejoin our guide at the station. Managed to take a few distant photos of the basilica and a selfie on the square. We had a special dinner in the Roof Garden Grill back on the Edge and I finished the day at the Abba sing along in The Club.