Foro Italico Rome

Everything in rome has been great. I loved the colosseum! the scale of things like this is amazing! The vatican was very cool but not as decorated as i expected....seeing a lot of the Michelangelo sculptures and paintings was very cool! Rome in general is very beautiful with 500 year old buildings mixed right into the modern city. One of my …

El día amaneció soleado por lo que aprovechamos con Osvaldo para ir al Coliseo. La construcción es sorprendente, un prodigio de la ingeniería romana, y te corre un escalofrío cuando ves las mazmorras y pensás que allí la gente peleaba y moría.


Al salir nos fuimos hacia el arco de Constantino y entramos en el foro romano. Recorrimos …

... artichokes and stuffed zucchini flowers. I bought my 4 euro daily public transportation ticket and zig-zagged all day through Rome. I ate lunch in Trastevere (a trendy nightlife area). Next was the gelato near the Trevi fountain. I think Rick Steves ...

... As I was about to head out for dinner, the raindrops started to come down. I really didn't know where I was going, and didn't want to get my clean clothing wet, so I opted for my one and only hostel dinner. I know where the worst pasta in Italy is! ...

... on my ipod. I missed a half a dozen things in the museums, but the tour group crowds weren't worth it. I did a lot of walking about Rome in the afternoon and came back early to try and do something nice with my hair because I thought I was seeing Pat on ...

... staying in rome for one more night, he wanted to take me out dancing  and bring me to the top of the hill that overlooks rome. it sounded too corny, and i said i wanted to leave for florence the next day so...  but he stil told me to consider ...

... breakfast, showered on the boat ( awkward) ate lunch with the boys from the states cause jes had a headache, lol.  w earrived in civitavechi italy at 4pm, we all got on a bus to a train, and a train to rome by 6pm . we all went our seperate ways. ...

... he made me talk to him for 20 minutes before ue would sell me any.. so now i know his name is enri, hes been in italy for only 7 months, working at the cafeteria for 3 months, only knows his english from us tourists, originally from albania. cool. i left ...

... we wanted to do. Andrew went up and asked this shady looking character who had been lurking in the shadows if he knew the way to Foro Italico (our hostel) and he took our group over to another man who made us an offer for taxis. I, and Vicki, had figured ...