Hostel Alessandro Palace Rome

When I finished the last blog I believe we had just taken our day trip to Pisa. I did not send an email out saying I had put that one up, so you may have two to catch up on! Soo... about a week ago, Amanda started coming down with a cold so we took it easy and just enjoyed walking around Florence and living in our own flat, feeling a little bit like Florentines. The day after Pisa we organized our trip to Rome. We also went to the Galleria del Academia where we saw Michelangelo's David. It ex...

Good location. Bad breakfast.

Alrighty.... It's been 3 full days since I last wrote, so clearly I have far too much to talk about. Which is why it's going to be a fairly brief overview of what I've been doing (except in cases where further discourse is necessary). Enough preamble, onward with the storytelling. Christmas Eve: I got into Rome, checked in, went out, got a padlock for my locked (cine none of mine would fit) and then went walking. I saw the Fontana di Trevi (still haven't thrown a coin in, must remember to do ...

Another quick rollup of the last few days, won't take long since I've been taking it a teensy bit slower. So Sunday it was raining, and instead of trying to enjoy the city without much of a plan or desire to resee the old sights, I went out briefly in the morning, bought myself a new book and came back to the hostel. I spent the day hanging in the bar, finishing The Dharma Bums, and starting Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (finished it already, woops). Exciting stuff, but taking a day...

I spent the last 3 nights in Rome at the Alessandro Palace Hostel near the Termini. The hostel was great and had its own bar. I met a bunch of cool people there pretty much from the UK and down unda. The first day I spent going to historic Rome and saw the Colosseum and the Forum. The Colosseum was great and much bigger than you think it will be but the tour inside is a rip off. The Romans were pretty darn brutal too. Apparently they had acts doing magic and whatnot during intermission and at...

Vatican City About 10 people from Contiki have followed us to Hostel Alessandro Palace for the night, and we decided to spend much of the day with them. We did our much-needed washing in the morning before we headed to Vatican City, country #9 for me. I went with Elliott to the Vatican, he had studied a lot of the art as part of his architecture course and was far more interested in the galleries than I was. I split with him after we saw the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo painted the cei...

This morning we took the Eurostar train from Florence to Rome. It was a quick 1 hour and 38 minute trip. We first walked over to our hostel to drop off our bags. The hostel is a few blocks from the main train station. We have a room with two twin beds and a private bathroom. It's the largest room we have had this entire trip. It will be nice to spread out a bit. After dropping our bags off we immediately headed for the Colosseum. It is quite amazing to see such a large stadium made of stone a...

Ciao from Roma! We've been traveling quite a bit recently but finally made it here. Two days ago we took a six hour ferry from Santorini back to Athens, then after a short night there (and one more gyro), we flew to Rome yesterday morning. After finding our hostel, we quickly set out to sight see as there is just so much to do in this city! Our first stop was the Trevi Fountain where we each threw a coin into the water, ensuring a return trip to Rome. Then we wandered over to the Pantheon wit...