The Sixtine Chapel was next on our list; we got up "early" in order to be there around 8h30am...our hotel has such a nice breakfast buffet that we did not want to skip it! The coffee was excellent (in that vein, let's say that there are really too few public toilet in Rome!!!), there was a freshly made fruit salad, croissants, cheese and cold cuts!

Anyhow, here we are lining up along the walls of the Vatican museums together with hundreds of visitors...but only for an hour or so.  And it was worth the wait! What is an hour when this Chapel has been there for 700 hundreds of years! Before actually getting in the Chapel, one wanders through several collection of work of arts...

In the Galerie des Tapisseries, the huge tapisseries de Bruxelles are astounding, as much by their workmanship as by the themes ...all made after drawings of Rafael's students.