Travel Blogs Nearby
Day 20 - Florence to Pisa to Rome
... are wooden shutters that close over them for privacy if you want to use them...there are also curtains. The floors are wooden and creaky, and there are a couple of worn tapestry rugs...in the hallways and on the stairs there is carpet, and it's very worn....as I said, it was once very elegant, now shabby...but not uncomfortable. The bathroom is neither small nor large, there is a bidet and a shower that works well...also a small window that opens out. The view from ...
Pizza and Kebabs!
... but I have definitely changed my mind after visiting the colleseum. While it looks much different than it did 1000 years ago, it is still easy to picture what it probably looked like. It was used for gladiators to fight each other and wild animals all in the name of entertainment. We learned tons of interesting stuff about the time period. ...
The Eternal City Welcomes us back
We will be here Sunday July 11th at about 5:00pm Rome time. We have rented an apartment, but knowing the way the internet works it could be an alley-way. I guess we'll see.
Having been here before we are very anxious to show it to Justin & Kyle and see all the places we loved again also. Definately a visit back to St.Peters (sorry Sant' Pietro's). We have reservations already for the Vatican Museum and we are going on the Necropolis tour again which is pre-arranged with ...
An English Poet Follows Us From London To Rome
... our way down through Prati, then crossed the Tiber River at Ponte Cavour and rode all the way to the last bus stop on our route and into centro storico, to the Piazza Augusto Imperatore.
It took us a few minutes to find this particular piazza on the maps we had – Rome is a complex maze of piazzas, one-ways, roundabouts, and streets that have different names on each side of the road! (PS – I remembered this directional complexity from a family trip ...
Laundromats, balcony parties and ruins
... he said that he had found a self service one that he thought was 24 hours and not too far away. At this point someone came in and asked if anyone had ordered a taxi. He had called the taxi for us!! Idiot!! But since it was there I got him to write down the address of the Laundromat and we went and got in the cab.
Five minutes later we were at the laundry and of course it was shut so we told the cabby to take us back to our hotel. The cabby was understandably ...

