15th March 2014 - 02:00

It's my birthday. I'm not having a very good day but it isn't the worst. The tour of the Colosseum was boring. The tour guide kept stopping so we could take lots of photos, but also kept switching between English and Italian so it was quite confusing. I was starving! They all wished me happy birthday though which was nice. I bought some lovely glass necklaces from a souvenir shop, I got a green flower one for mum because she's not feeling so well at the moment.

I changed into my full length red skirt so I was cooler and went for coffee and bought some liquid eyeliner. Both places seemed to look down at me. An Italian guy tried chatting me up though, ha ha. Italians seem to either love or hate the English I've noticed, and they prefer to test their English rather than let me speak Italian! I've text my friend Christine from the Vatican tour yesterday to see if she'd like to have dinner tonight.