A private showing! How on earth did you swing that one?
Well, my bodyguards were still there, protecting their most valuable asset (the guy that pays their bills).
lol, even I can't buy that.
Truth is (more boring) but there is a tour you can go on where you have a guide and the 'key masters' in your presence.
er...I'll try again. It's called something like the Vatican key masters tour and for two hours (6am to ..well 8am..lol) you walk through the Vatican museums with the people responsible for opening the 2700 (yes 2,700!!!!!) locked doors and windows every day.
Plus...you get to unlock one door personally!
Plus Plus...one lucky bugger gets to unlock the Sistine chapel! (It wasn't me).
Numbers are limited to 20 people so I wasn't alone, I just waited until the others moved on.
It's still 'not allowed' to take pics in there but the guide doesn't care and you just have to get them in before the guard starts work and begins to yell at everyone...lol. Poor guy, every day he starts work annoyed and shaking his head.
It's an amazing tour, you're walking through the galleries in the dark...then they fling the lights on and reveal all their glory.
It was brilliant (both with and without lights..ha)
