Today started rather interestingly we decided to give the Roman bus service a go, but we really chose the wrong day. Unbeknown to us, there was a huge protest planned, and the protest route was straight through the route our bus should have taken, so our bus was cancelled. After a 40 minute wait we gave up and caught a taxi, who had to drop us off a kilometre from our destination. Protesting Roman style straight past the coliseum, past the Roman forum and past the Vittorio Emmanuele monument. There was literally hundreds of people, banging drums blowing whistles and chanting. The Ludus Magnus As we passed the protest, we passed these ruins Ok I ll fess up here I took this photo having no idea what this was, so using my resources effectively I messaged Amy and she filled me in, this is the Ludus Magnus, the gym and barracks of the gladiators ( which Amy had explained to us when we did the coliseum tour). There is an underground tunnel that runs fr