# What to do/see when in Rome (Italy) for six hours? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-see-when-in-rome-italy-for-six-hours/983796 "2023-05-09T13:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-see-when-in-rome-italy-for-six-hours/983796/2 "2023-05-09T13:14:36Z")
What are the bookends? IOW, what happens at 8am to turn you loose & at 2pm when you need to be starting whatever is next? Here’s a recent thread on a similar situation in ORD where somebody had 3 hours from scheduled flight arrival to scheduled flight departure. They were disabused of the notion that they had any slack time at all. If you’re in a similar boat, this might be useful info to you. > [@Need ideas for stuff to do in Chicago during a 3-hour layover at O'Hare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-ideas-for-stuff-to-do-in-chicago-during-a-3-hour-layover-at-ohare/980565): > > In a couple of weeks, I’ll have a layover from 2pm to 5pm at Chicago O’Hare. Rather than just sit around the airport, I thought it could be fun to head to the city. I see they have trains, so I figured I could just take one of those. My ideal trip would be to take a train somewhere (direct from the airport to the location. no transfers, no taxi, no Uber) where I could get something Chicago-ish to eat and meander around someplace interesting until it was time to take the train back to the airp… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-see-when-in-rome-italy-for-six-hours/983796)._