The Sistine Chapel

It's so funny to think back to 1989 when we travelled thru Europe and visited Rome... I'm not sure what I expected in the Vatican but I hadn't quite prepared myself for the Sistine Chapel... with four or five hundred other people... as you walked around it was hardly the silent smells and sounds of history... perhaps they were drowned out by the hum of chatter or the click of Canon EOS cameras.... It was amazing but it wasn;t the solemn and solitary place I had imagined. A bit like the Trevi Fountain with a thousand tourists all sitting around it... not quite the postcard view.
I imagine the Cardinals will have a unique view of the ceiling this week though!!