Hotel Golfo Anzio

... the tombs were from 8th century BC) and Sam and I crawled into some of the tombs...very Indiana Jones-like. Afterwards, we were bussed to the beach, and we swam in the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, and had a crazy game of beach volleyball. (There was a castle on the beach, to top it all off!) Yesterday was our class trip to the Capitoline Museums...I could have stayed there all day, there was so much to see and (this is going ...

... here. Seeing friends again, being on this absolutely beautiful campus, seeing Rome, speaking Italian, having an open air Mass in the Ampitheater...I'm positively radiating happiness.
Tomorrow we get our first view of Rome from inside the city, and in the evening, we can attend Mass in the Vatican. I might be dead with happiness by then, we'll see.
So finally, from Rome, goodnight. I've posted some Ireland pictures on facebook, so check them out! Love, from the land of Italy. :)

... parts of the world. A stop here and you can listen to a thousand different languages all asking the same two things - "why am I throwing this coin in backwards again?" and "wow is it possile to get any more people in to this square do you think!" We lingered for a while then joined the crouds at the waters edge and made uor votine offering to the Gods for our return, before heading to the Piazza Nouvouna for Dinner.

... Club Castelfusano. It would have been much more affordable to sleep in the airport, but oh well. I ended up taking a taxi from Roma Fiumicino Aeroporto to Castelfusano and it cost me 50 euros, ouch. The room, however, was only 5 euros. I stayed with a guy from Croatia named Shamac I think. He makes his own jewelry and sells it to tourist in Roma. The weather was terrible in ...

... are arrogant and ignorant. The American mentality can best be summed up with a phrase I heard there all too often "you are in America, speak English". An isolationist policy. A we're better than the rest, therefore we only need English. Then they put up their "wall" between Mexico and themselves to keep out foreigners. Europe is a place of profound change however. Take the EU - the largest investment and economic bloc in the world. People, goods, and money can move freely from ...

... looked really cool on the outside because it has basically the same structure as it did when it was built in the 6th century I believe. The inside has been redone though, so it wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be. I guess nothing will compare to St. Peter's though. Then we made our way over to the Piazza Navona. It was really cool looking. Then we just spent some time walking around the city, looking at all the cool architecture and being amazed that we were there! Then ...

... t drag her around for so long and i must admit it was nice to be in a bus and not be thinking about what train we were catching etc. Hadrian's Villa was huge and just as sweet as i remembered from all my lessons on its architecture at Uni in a past life. It took 50,000 slaves ten years to complete and it shows. It had the best of everything - theatres, baths, libraries, dinning halls etc - and could sleep 3,000 of the ...

Tonight was the Ballet! Joy and I had gotten out of Italian class early so that we could rush home and beautify ourselves. We all got dressed up-I even whipped out my pearls and red lipstick! You know its a fabulous occasion. We arrived at the theater, and it was gorgeous. I handed the usher my ticket and she showed me to my box. Yes, BOX!! Liz and I had scored box seats. The ...

Day 14 - Florence to Rome On the way to Rome we stopped at the small hilltop town of Orvieto. So small that it doesn't rate a mention on my map. Orvieto's claim to fame is it's Duomo, apparently the 3rd biggest in all of Europe. In my opinion it was pretty but definitely not as grand as the one in Florence... although the zebra stripes on the outside did make it rather unique. We arrived in Rome at 2pm (our shortest drive day yet) and commenced our 5 ...

We drove back to Florence and caught a train to Rome. Nov 2 Our day started with a trip to the Circus Maximus. We could not find it until we realized we were standing on top of it. We also visited the Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. It was great seeing all those partial columns and rubble which represented all the buildings and ...