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Via Palestro 49 Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Which way to the Forum?
... spend several hours touring the nearby Palentine Hill, and the Roman Forum. The Forum is the name given to a huge collection of ancient ruins next to the Colosseum and it was a great way to spend the morning. This place is an archaeologist's dream, Ainslie, you must come here someday.
In the afternoon, on the advice of the lady at our hotel, we made our way to the ruins of an ancient Roman bath called Caracalla. It was ...
Another big read so much to do and so little time
... a few hills in this park so it didn't take long to work out not to stop half way up as it was hard to get going. At one stage we had kids bombarding us with water which we couldn't avoid but it was a nice relief. At the bottom of the hill Suzanne almost got wiped out by an Asian tourist who couldn't drive a golf buggie - Oh so close. They pedalled around for an hour before delivering the bike back - the guy thought we were nuts! We walked back to the Spanish steps and ...
Woa Getting Busier...
... terms that we think of it as Americans because even your morning coffee-croissant place will serve alcohol. But I'm really excited because it's at a really cute small place (very typical Roman). I'm suuuper nervous because I hardly speak Italian but I clearly told them that and I can at least communicate with the basics so we'll see how that goes!
Last night, I was wandering around the Jewish ghetto with a friend (its ...
Day 1
... the Hotel Selene and our adventures began (and yet you’ve been reading for 5 minutes now. Weird.)
We head to the nearest Traveler Information center to pick up our Roma passes that will get us into all the main attractions and free rides on all public transport for 3 days. Awesome! Along the way, we get our first serving of authentic Italian gelato. Double Awesome!
We then head to the Borghese Gallery. Cool building ...
Nearly Overwhelming, but Completely Amazing
... equipped with a bar, market, restaurant, pool, and wifi. Italy definitely knows how to camp! We will sleep well tonight! June 20th After breakfast we caught a bus and then the metro to go in to the city center and visit the forum and coliseum. The tickets to walk through them are combined, and were 12 euros each, which was pretty reasonable. We started at the forum, and slowly wandered around the ancient ruins. We were so tired today and Laurel has a cold, so our pace ...



