Twin Cities Hostel Rome

... just for the fun of it, where the Bernini statue 'The Four Rivers” is placed and Borromini’s masterpiece church Sante Agnes in Agone is situated, and world famous restaurant Tre Scalini hosted Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert, is now filled with circus stalls that look like they belong on a vacant lot in Philomath, hawking the most inane of throwaway souvenirs. It’s pathetic, appalling and inspirational.

... getting close to meeting time, so we asked a local for directions to a Supermarket to get a few things. Even with the directions, we couldnt seem to find it. We accosted a man with shopping bags and asked him and finally found the "local" italian supermarket and it was interesting what you could get. We settled for some Asti, Chinotto and Pepsi and some conditioner on special for me (1.69 Euro!) and then met back at St Peters Square. It was massively ...

... off!- in italiano. Anyway- after that complaining session- back to it. We lined up for a little while and heard that if we bought an audio guide we could skip the line. DONE! I actually learnt something from them. It was good timing too, because it started to rain not long after that. I love my water proof camera, it doesnt mind a little precipitation. Time for our trips theme song and video of us fools singing it!!! (Please be aware that video may not appear in the blog ...

... street vendors were selling them for 3.5 euro... and walked back over to the Palatino (it's a huge park full of roman ruins) and sat on a bench chatting for an hour of so before exploring the park. It was a beautiful day to be outside. Okay, I have to go.. the lady here says they are closing... We are headed to Cinqueterra in the morning where we are camping!!!! I will write in the next day or so... Cheers Tracy

... realized that we were almost heading out of the city and got off the bus. We were all starving and slightly scared that we wouldn't be able to find our way home. When we got onto the next bus, the bus driver told us to get off half a mile away from the actual area we wanted to be in. we didn't realize that "trastevere" not such a small part of town and we ended up walking a long ways, but it turned out to be really good because we found the wall ...

... and the ruins of Ancient Rome, which also amazed me. I did have a mishap with a bus door running over my foot though... let's just say my toenail is not the same... That night we went out for our last night's dinner, which was another Italian restaurant with opera singers, but these singers actually performed scenes, so that was fun. Then we went out to what we thought would be a discoteqhue, but what was ...

... service" (you gotta be kidding-of course we tipped him anyways). Our island sojourn via scooter continued to a beautiful spot for a swim, then back to the ferry dock location where we supplemented our bottles of wine with some fresh bread, tomatoes in olive oil, and mozzarella (yum!). We had a little bit too much fun, and missed our ferry back! Fortunately, the ferry we did catch back returned us to our ship "on time" (OK, we were a couple of minutes late-but all was well ...