Hotel Pichierri Rome
Via Flavia 84 Rome, Lazio, 00187, Italy
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Day 20 - Florence to Pisa to Rome
... throw of this hotel, so they need to beef up their service. Anyway, there is an antique elevator, surrounded by a cage, that lets off right at our room....it's pretty cool....the guy didn't tell us about it, either...we discovered it on our own....anyway, you have to open first the wooden door of the elevator and then the cage door to get out...and if you don't close all of the doors (they don't close automatically), the elevator is stuck on your floor until someone ...
When in Rome... Do as the Romans do.
... it also included the Palestine Hills.. This is also were Mussolini lived. It was interesting, and the view was amazing. But so bloody hot outside!
The Vatican was huge, and pretty impressive.
Italy was immensely cheaper then Paris.. The transit was only 1 euro to get to a place... It was nice.
I ate pizza, pasta and gelato. AWESOME!
Off to Venice.
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WOW, what a day!
... able to visit St. Peter’s church., the Pope’s resident church. Sadly, the pope was not “at home” today but we were all thilled to be there anyway.
The inside of the church was heaven itself with descriptive detail in the walls, ceilings, and floor. It was as if we were in the presence of the Lord. It simply took your breath away.
Next on the list was our personal visit with a ...
The Coliseum
... with its gigantic horse statues on top. Victor Emmanuel II became the first king of unified Italy in 1861.
From the upper observation levels you could look back at the Coliseum and the Forum. We took the underground Metro and the rail tram back to where Melissa and Livio picked us up.
Photos below.
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A Lazy Day
... that we bought from Campo de Fiori and some herbs that I picked from the garden.
Becky's word of the day: Clothes!
From Sam: Today we stayed at the apartment through the morning. After a lunch of ham, spicy cheese, bread and milk we wandered around and went into a lot of clothing stores. For tea we had omelettes.
Sam's word of the day: Lazy
Note: All of the photos today are Alison's
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This hotel was formerly known as: Pichierri Sallustio



