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Walking Rome's ancient wonders

A travel blog entry by cskinnear

... photos. Katie looked at the various tourist stands, and I bought a couple of lovely cashmink scarves. They were trying to flog them for 20-25 euros, but I refused to pay more than 5. One guy agreed to the price, gave us the scarf and then promptly ran away without taking the money. I was a bit concerned he was fetching the police to say we had stolen it from him (I have heard of this happening) but in fact one of the other sellers told us the police were after him, so that's why ...

One big Roman holiday

A travel blog entry by sasntwins

... and NY strip steak hit the spot. Dessert was a double home run too-rhubarb crumble and chocolate caramel biscuit. Don't know if we will be hungry for a big breakfast before tomorrow's big adventure, but we'll do our best. (it actually isn't that much food, smaller portions).

Oh, and the show was a Lionel Richie tribute….how perfect is that? And he even sang our song. Now I have to go to bed cuz my eyes are starting to cross.
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Give me your bags and leave for now....

A travel blog entry by lizandtory

... is the guys with the flowers. Luckily, we read about guys like this ahead of time, but some people were not so knowledgeable. These guys will force a rose into your hands basically (or try to, in our case) and tell you its free. We watched this happen to another American girl friends... They then act all nice and ask if you want them to take your picture for you and blah blah blah. That's when the spring it on you that you should give ...

Rome...2nd day!

A travel blog entry by marymichael84

... and a 40 euro prepaid phone…unfortunately when I went to pay neither cards would work…I ended up having to get cash out from my credit card and paying that way…bit of a pain!!! What can you do.

Went back to apartment…Mary had a siesta (not all night this time) and I set up the 'TIM’ internet…. After a few tries we were on line and we were ready to go as the phone was ready too.

As i was still having trouble with ...

In Roma! cittá de la ensalada César...

A travel blog entry by europeando

... y despu�s siguen caminando como si nada.

Bueno, hablando de lo que nos concierne, llegamos a Roma Termini al mediod�a y dejamos las cosas en el hostel que est� a una estaci�n de Metro, muy bien ubicado en Via Cavour a 6 cuadras del Coliseo. Al llegar tuvimos que subir 4 pisos por escalera y casi me quiebro, pero emocionalmente, fue demasiado. Arriba nos dieron un llavero que inclu�a una llave para el ascensor. Despu�s de dejar las cosas, vimos ...