Twin Cities Hostel Rome

... caught my train. I got a window
seat and was able to view Italy's great landscape. The trains in Italy
all require reservations which cost 10 euro however they are much more
roomy and comfortable. They also had a power plug so I could charge my
ipod. The train stopped at Bologna, Florence and then Rome. I got in
around 4pm and headed straight for the hostel. The hostel was only a
five minute ...

... prayer. We just found an open bench and sat and looked for probably 30 minutes or so. It has been redone recently because it is well....500 years old. Everywhere the eye could see was artwork and it was incredible! Then we went to some on the way place for dinner and let me tell you, the food was disgusting! We both got spaghetti whatever and afterward I felt kind of sick. This was our first bad food experience thus far in Italy. All the food so ...

July 14 We arrived in Rome in the afternoon and were picked up by Andrea, a funny, polite 20 something guy who was very into art and music.  We got along with him instantly.  He lived a little outside Rome, so we got to see a different side of the city.  We didn't have much to do, so we ended up just spending the night with him, making dinner, having wine, talking, and him and Ari played music together on the guitar.  It was great to see the connection those two ...

... a special someone with ya. The second night we went touring around again then my bro and i ran into some pub crawl people. Ended up going on this ridiculous pub crawl through rome til like 4 in the morning and got some great pics i will post later. The third day we chilld out and started getting ready for the cruise. That night my bro sis and I went out and met some awesome ladies from Belfast that we ...

... found our street. I was extremely lucky to have found the hostel we were staying in. Not only is it almost impossible to find hostel accomodation on the island of Venice itself, its impossible to find it in a good location. Ours was in both- my research had paid of once again! Our hostel was on a quaint little side street, a 4 minute walk to Rialto bridge and to St Marks Square! Not only that it wasnt actually your normal hostel- it was more a two bed ...

... on the way to the Pantheon, we saw these two little old ladies, who also looked quite lost. I pointed them out to Wende and said, "Look, that'll be us in 40 years." She agreed. We headed toward the Pantheon (which has been conv**ted to a church from a pagan temple) and took pictures of the front. We couldn't go inside because Mass was in progress. So, we got a pic in front of a column and made for McDonald's. Not to eat, mind you, but we KNEW they had ...

... high school. The odd thing about this site, which was a very busy downtown area with hundreds of people around and dozens of cars and buses and trams, was that in the ruins themselves, there were a large number of cats. The more we looked, the more cats we saw--perhaps forty in all, lounging in the sun and enjoying their own place undisturbed in the middle of the bustle. We supposed they must be wild and must find their own food; in the ruins they lived at or below the basement level ...

... on and everyone was tunning into it - screaming updates to each other. No big deal. Until they won - Oh My God! Apparently the game was some Grand Final and Rome hadn't won it in 30 years. We were wondering around Piazza Narvona when the Police arrived - semi automatic weapons and all. Gina spoke to one of them who said that there could be 60,000 people there shortly. Oh dear. We wondered down to Via Corso to ...