Domina Roma Capannelle Rome

I was off to Rome today and very excited. From many people I talked to
that had been to Rome they all said good things. I got up at around
9am had a coffee at the hostel and was able to upload all my pictures
from the beginning of the trip before I left for Rome at 11:43am. It
took me about an hour and it was all done. Please check them out if
you have time.

I grabbed a quick breakfast/lunch ...

... We all were cracking up because of hte size. When we got to the pizzaria it was pretty empty, but by the time we left, all teh tabls were full. THen Enzo said it was a short walk to the gelato factory he wanted tot take us to. It wasn't quite a short walk to us! We walked all the way to the Termini. We really weren't too happy. Once we got to the gelato factory though, we were a little happier (At least I was). I ...

... pretty deflated. Sad really. He was a great climber and seemed to speak well. Other impressions on Day 1 of Rome. Very early impressions I know so they're gross generalisations but for what it's worth. They're a happy people who enjoy friends and family, they drive like there's no tomorrow, live in a place with so much history it's phenomenal. Most of the old "stuff" we saw in Spain was at its oldest medieval - maybe 500, 600 years. Lots of the Roman ...

... to the nearest metro stop and not HOME as he had promised the night before. As it turned out, I thought he was blowing me off. Three American expressions were explained that day (my first English lesson) Hook Up, Hang Out and Blow Off. I got no homework done at all. I expected nothing else from him but...the next day, I received a text message saying he had a surprize for me. We met and he drove me out to the "Castelli di Roma" or ...

... great, very light, unlike Italian food in the U.S. Their cappucino machine wasn't working, so we went to another place on the corner for dessert. This place was called, "Snack Bar Washington." We had the best, and biggest, piece of tiramisu ever. Then we crashed in what was a nice room. At the back of our minds we were wondering what we were going to do about our luggage, since we would not be in Rome the next day.

... to take a cab or a shuttle because I was a bit worried of taking the train since I am by myself in this short vacation of mine. Someone offered me a shuttle service for a cost of 70 Euro which I took to bring me to the Grand Hotel Olympic which is at the via Properzio, quite near from the vatican museums. I reached the hotel past 10 pm and my first impression was that I am going to have a hard time sleeping especially after seeing the layout of my hotel room. It's a small room ...

... told each other in front of me, in italian that i cant speak shows you how poor my skills are even could not get the waiter at the resataurant yesterday to understand i would like a table for dinner, must have thought i was speaking a foreign language and he was a german workig at the lake resort! oh well, it is just one ...

... or Zuppa Inglese, a liqueur-soaked sponge cake covered with custard, similar to English trifle. Local Currency The Euro (EUR), the currency of the European Union, is the official currency of Italy. Many stores and restaurants also accept major credit cards, which usually offer you a good exchange rate. When shopping, remember there is a Value-Added Tax added to most purchases.

... hotel room - there is a wooden staircase inside the room that leads up to a loft, the shower is halfway up the stairs and the toilet is in the loft. There is also a spare bed up in the loft. A small balcony looks out to the cobble-stoned street below. Very nice. But I'm too hungry to appreciate it at the moment. So we head back outside to grab some lunch. And then back to our quaint room for a rest. Early in the afternoon, we head out to explore ...

... passes through the town, before discovering it off a side road. Most people were nearing the end of their meal, and they were a pretty well dressed and well healed lot. I was wearing shorts and sandles. The waiter wore a bowtie. It was very, very hot, and not much cooler inside. The waiter had no English at all. Not that great a problem in that it is a fixed price, fixed menu restaurant. Realy not entitled to call itself a trattoria, depite the fixed menu concept, in that it ...