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... airport who will direct us to our shuttle. The group is so much smaller now - there's probably about 15 of us here, and I'm the only solo traveler. Everyone else is with either a friend or, in most cases, their spouse/significant other. Great.
The shuttle ride takes about 45 minutes to get us to our hotel, Hotel Noto, and there's a Contiki site rep waiting for us. His name is Russell and he works at the Contiki campsite just out of ...
Walk, walk and walk some more...
Quick, let's go, we've got 20minutes to get to the Vatican! Wolf down a pastry, grab a couple for the day and off...
Met up with 3minutes spare, and the ladies from Hawaii were last... We meet our very good guide for the morning and she was really very good, she knew her stuff, and she was good, ...oh Isaid that! We skipped lines everywhere and still took over 3 hours to be guided through the vatican museums, Sistene Chapel and the Cathedral of ...
No I can't think of anything clever at 11:39pm
... what that means but let’s just say they didn’t miss anything even when they had to go to the bathroom).
Yesterday we saw the Baths of Caracalla which was kind of like a super sophisticated fitness club that is more locker room then treadmill. We also saw the Trevi Fountain at night. It was gorgeous. Before that dinner was extremely interesting. We were convinced by the hilarious salesman/waiter ...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do ;)
... we got up really early to go to Vatican City. We headed to the Vatican and got in line. It was pretty long, but it would have been so much longer later in the day and insanely long in the summer. The cathedral was very pretty. I studied it in art history. We took many pictures and I was acting “asian” in all of them aka the peace sign. There are soooooooo many Asians in italy. We then went to anotherrrrr museum in the Vatican. We walked through ...
That little independent state!
... too! We made our way through the sculpture courtyard and galleries, taking in the wonderful pieces of art situated in the most beautiful Baroque interiors and gardens/courtyards. Gilded, faux, vaulted ceilings with marble columns, mosaic floors, marble floors, and oh the frescoes!! Raphael’s frescoes in a former dining room were huge and wonderful- so realistic and easy to follow! I’m incredibly excited to learn the technique ...