Gulliver's House
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Roma!
This is my third day in Roma, and I think I've pretty much seen everything! I've met a pretty cool guy named Marcos who is from South Brazil...speaks English fairly well because he was an exchange student in high school...at Lincoln City of all places :). We've been visiting all the sites together. The first day we were here we saw the Vatican …
Italy
as they say, when in rome... so day one was more or less low-key, wandering around the area of my hostel and doing everythign in italian when i was outside of the hostel. i'm now a pro at ordering gelato and i even ordered my take-away pizza AND helped translate for some english folk at the resto. go me! day two saw me move hostels, thankfully, b/c …
HOHO Bus tour of Rome, Colosseum, Circus and Steps
... tomato on - I assumed this was the one serving of bruschetta having only asked for one). As we had not eaten it all, I refused to pay it all. In the end she still insisted on charging me 9 euros for the bruschetta. I was very annoyed, and this left a sour taste after such a good meal. I have no idea why they would give me 6 servings, but even to charge 3 euros for one small piece of bruschetta is robbery. Perhaps this is a tourist scam. I'm sure many tourists ...
Italy – Florence, Pisa and Rome
... inside we actually got to see the only piece of art that Michelangelo had signed as well as some genius trying to take a picture of it with his iPad (there were a few of those!) Next up, was a view from the top of the dome and the walk up 300 odd stairs to get there. The higher we climbed the more claustrophobic it became but the view was absolutely worth it and a huge highlight for us at the top!
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When in Rome...
Another accommodation slipup occurred in our next destination, Rome. We discovered the catch of our "to good to be true" online booking as we found our B&B way out of the city centre, in a suburban apartment block. Lesson learned and tip for any fellow Rome travelers: always pay the little bit extra to stay in the centre of Rome. It's worth it.
We ended up really enjoying our own little B&B room as it led us to some unlikely treasures while in ...
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