Thursday, we had our first tour with Cecilia. Fortunately, we all thought she is a wonderful guide, because she was also our guide for Friday's Vatican museum/St. Peter's Basilica.
We were picked up by our driver promptly at 7:30 am (it's a bit far to walk from the apartment to the Vatican), then picked-up Cecilia along the way.
Doing a guided "skip the line" tour is the only way to see the Vatican museum (and to keep keep your sanity).
There is so much to see on the tour that you need a guide to take you to the most important sights. There is so much in the museum that, according to Cecilia, if you spent 30 seconds looking at all of everything in the museum, it would take six years.
(Editor: "All of everything"? Writer: I am trying to convey the vastness of the collection. You are welcome to test whether the 30 seconds/6 year is true.)
I am not Catholic, but to give credit where credit is due, when Rome collapsed in AD 476, the Catholic Church preserved a great deal of Western Civilization, collecting art, furniture, and other items from many cultures, and that eventually became the museum (after serving time in their palace).
I really don't need to write much about the Vatican Museums -- just know that, if you haven't been, you can't see it all. And you really shouldn't try. Go see the greatest hits as led by a guide (preferably Cecilia) and enjoy it until you enter a museum fugue state.
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