Katja's Bed & Breakast
Travel Blogs from Rome
Rome
... them harass you all the time but I've found if you just look straight ahead and don't give them eye contact most will leave you alone. There are also lots of people begging for money and they will often lie face down across the path with their arm outstretched, moaning. Nathan heard that sometimes they are men dressed up as women so when we walk past them I am always trying to figure out whether I can tell if its a man or a lady! After we had finished ...
The Colosseum, The Borghese and The Forum
Derek and I had an early start to the day today. Since we went to bed early last night we were both up around 6 this morning. We left the hostel a little before 8 to our first stop of the day: The Colosseum. It was already very warm this early in the morning so we hid in the shade of the arches as we listened to our very handy Rick Steves' audio guide on our iPhones. The Colosseum was built in 80 A.D. during the height of the Roman ...
Roma
... recién llegada a Italia, por 3 semanas. Pegamos la mejor al instante, y nos fuimos a tomar un café. Yo empece a estar cada vez peor de la brotacion, asi que decidi llamar al medico de Assist Card, quien me vino a ver al hostel, llego al toque. Según el, una reacción alérgica a algo que comi, o algo que me pico, o simplemente "viste que los hostels no son limpios, que no cambian las sabanas y los acolchados, puede ser cualquier cosa…" Yo ya al borde del agotamiento mental, me ...
The Eternal City
... see Bruna when I get back to Rome at the start of August because the rest of the family is going overseas.
Saturday 2/7/11
Amanda spent the day with relatives in Aprilia, inland of Rome, so after a sleep-in I headed to via del Corso with Mara, to hunt out some bargains. The massive summer sales started today, so there were people everywhere, and it got pretty tedious pretty quickly. In Italy they have the equivalent of our Boxing Day sales twice a year, so it's pretty ...
Romes old but we had the dinosaurs?
... exhausting day.
while walking back i got to talking with a local who was studying there and he took me to one of the 7 hills that surround Rome and told me all the history or all the sites and random legends and stuff. it was cool.
the next day was ruins day i decided. so started off with the coloseum, which was free cus im hitting all the culture week stuff. and i loved it. i mean, i got to be somewhere what they killed tigers and ...