Today, we rode Segways with a guide and two other tourists (father/son from Adelaide, AU). It is a strange sensation; one has to control one’s body in unfamiliar postures but consciously relax in order to get the hang of it. Our guide was excellent at keeping us safe as we followed him single file on our “3-hour tour.”
i never noticed before how oblivious many tourists are! Walking around without an awareness of who/what else is moving! Walking backwards across a busy sidewalk with your eye glued to your camera’s viewfinder in order to include more in your photo?! Entering a street from a building’s exit with pausing first to check on the cross-traffic?
Without the Segway, i would likely not have climbed Capitoline Hill. Our guide also took us through the Jewish Ghetto, the Forum, the Colosseum, and Circus Maximus. No way could i have hoofed it to all those sites in one day!
Where in the world are the Gills? 