Roman Rome

Woke up before the alarm today! Although my legs are huring from all teh walking. We had our full 4 hours of class. It went a lot better than I expected. Even though I totally don't understand everything, I think I'm starting to get into the mindset of learning a language. You just get into a zone of hearing the Italian. All I know is that there...

And we finally went to Rome. We've been meaning to go there for ages but were never able to find an affordable plane. I was a little worried that Rome couldn't live up to our incredibly high expectations after all this time ... boy was I wrong! Rome is legen ... wait for it ... dary! It's almost too much. The Vatican alone demands 2 days and Rom...

So here it is the end of August. Tomorrow I start back at work with a full time(35 hours) schedule. August has been weird. A mixed bag. At the beginning of August, I was very depressed. I had been slow to make new friends, slow to learn Italian (which it turns out I am not doing so badly) and slow to really accept the fact that I am NOT going ho...

Can I just say I really hate passive aggressive whiners who expect the f***ing world to revolve around their every whim? Well, I do. And unfortunately there are several of these people in my "group" here. I am sick of taking the bullet for people who can't deal with their own situations themselves. We have one PROBLEM person (no surprise here!) ...

Hi All, Today is our second-to-last day in Rome so we thought we should knuckle down and do some more tours instead of drinking beer and coffee with the locals! We started by taking a green bus that looked like Shrek (it had ears) to the Appia Antica which means the Ancient Way. Its a big area of Rome that dates back a few thousand years. It rea...

So - my first blog entry! I flew out to Paris on 12th April. The flight was nice and early, although I had to be up at 4am which I wasn't impressed with. Anyone who knows me, knows I need a decent sleep to function properly. I was travelling with Jen, my cousin and we arrived at Paris airport on time and jumped a train into the city. When we lef...

As the previous author stated Nick and Dave had left the three wonder boys in Frankfurt for the greener pastures of Italy. Ready for anything but expecting nothing We headed to Rome hoping for the best and expecting the worst. After 24 hours of straight travel not to mention being awake for well over 35 the only concern for us was to find a plac...

(written On Travel) hey ya all in rome ok the city is amazing, so much to see, defo worth spending at leats 2 days moochin round the city, last night 4 of us won a drinkin contest (boat race) but the tight ***** MC didng give us anything for winning, but the booze for tha game was free! today were going back into the city, and got to catch a tra...

We woke up at 7 am excited to spend the morning touring around Venice before heading to Rome. I failed to mention in the previous sentence that we woke up at 7 am to a torrential downpour outside our window. There went our tour of Venice--no San Marco Plaza, no gondola ride, just strait on to Rome to start our adventure there. We packed up our s...

Tuesday 16th May 2000 Ches started the day at breakfast by declaring that my feet/trackshoes were beginning to smell. Really offensive. Life in Sorrento is extremely seasonal for the locals. Today is the day for clearing the hillsides-all among the lemon and olive trees etc. From sun-up, there is the constant whine of brush cutters (big whipper-...