After breakfast we picked up a chartered bus with out tour group and headed to Ostia Antica.  This city reminded me a lot of Pompeii.  If you were in Rome only a short time and could not visit Pompeii, Ostia Antica makes for a much closer (though less dramatic) substitute.

  

Finishing our tour of Ostia, we packed back into the bus and drove to the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea.  Of course I got some gelato.

We climbed back aboard the bus and headed back to Rome.  We visited the crypts at San Sebastian.  The church itself had a few wonderful statues but I found the crypts somewhat underwhelming.

Leaving the crypts we took a walk down the Appian Way.  This was the great road that stretched practically as far as civilization.  Along the way we stopped at the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella.