Julian’s turnabout adventure today today we visited an ancient colosseum in italy oh oh gladiators in the colosseum it was important to be good on your feet ouch mom says there’s a famous saying that all roads go to rome then in rome all stairs go to colosseum these stairs make you feel like you have to lean forward so you don’t fall down come on little buddy must belong to a big dog there’s a lot of old buildings around the colosseum that’s our friend anthea she knows all about old buildings hi auntie hi julian and hi rosie auntie what’s this big building over here building a lot of buildings whatever it’s like what is this because i’ve seen pictures of this ah you have already what’s that it’s a temple ruin it’s a temple rule rosie do you know what the forum was hmm wasn’t it like a big market good answer we will start walking through this whole area and get into the policy what’s this wall right here this is um a porticos a kind of walkway for all the gods auntie said people throw coins on it to get good luck let’s try to get lots of good luck okay i do agree let’s get good luck for getting good luck no time for some more stairs come on guys it’s hard come on slowpokes even more stairs what’s this school building india told us that this building was like the doorway to the forum it had lots of cool carvings on it oh look look look we are walking on an ancient fragment of a roman road whoa you know rosie you know how earlier today we had to walk like this now we have to walk like this look look joint make the jump perfect you stepped right on it okay rosie do you know how old the colosseum is almost 2 000 years old another good answer it’s a balance beam cool a hole in a rock right here i’m gonna get it first wow nancy can we go inside now of course let’s go cool whoa this is so big inside the colosseum there’s a big open area where the gladiators used to compete against each other and animals that’s all that’s left of the animal cages this is gonna be a much better view you have to consider it mm-hmm it’s it’s only bones but it looked like this is what the colosseum looked like two thousand years ago then we pretended we were gladiators gladiator tickle fight okay now get off me no i don’t think the gladiators did that rosie someone put her some tape on her lips india took us to meet her friend ben so he could teach us how to be real gladiators julie and rosie are you gonna teach us how to be gladiators here i am what is a gladiator oh a gladiator was a very strong warrior he used to fight in the arenas at the colosseum he used to fight even in the colosseum yes ben can we play gladiator with you sure you can but first you have to train oh thank you okay ah we had a great time pretending to be gladiators in italy hi auntie hi listen before you go do you want to go on a carriage ride okay ciao well pick yes up
