Plus Camping Roma Rome

Hello all, Iīve just spent the last few days wandering like crazy around Rome. Itīs such a huge place, even to do just the touristy things youīd need a whole week! But it is an amazing place, definitely worth it. The colosseum is a lot bigger than I thought, a little worn down, but it has been around for ages so thatīs understandable. Made some cool friends while traveling with busabout and have been out to dinner and general touring of Rome with them, it has been great fun. I went with one o...

During or trip from Florence to Rome we made a short stop at Orvieto. This small Tuscan town with its narrow streets, pizzerias, cafes and souvenir vendors features a large renaissance style basilica at its highest point. It is recorded that a travelling Catholic Priest had doubts about the church's doctrine on transubstantiation (the belief that the bread used in the mass to represent the body of Christ actually become flesh). It is recorded that while the priest was conducting a mass, blood...

The bus ride to Rome is one of the longer journeys and we traveled through the mountains and along the coast of italy for about 12 hours. Unfortunately the bus regulations require stops every couple of hours so it would be faster on the train but it is nice to get out and stretch and of course eat more food than you normally would. We watched Gladiator of course as we were heading to Rome and a couple other movies. The scenery was breathtaking and so vast from one moment to the next. There we...

We arrived in Rome to clear sunny blue sky's and guess what the train was only an hour and a half late this time (at least we had seats).
After another night without sleep we wanted to get to the campsite as quickly as possible but as always with us it took a couple of hours. First we got off at the wrong stop on the Metro, then it took a while to find out where we could get tickets for the bus, plus us trying to walk the way, by the time we eventually did arrive it was well into the afte...

Our day started like every other day, a huge breakfast (you need this in Rome as you spend the entire day walking).

With our stomachs bulging we sort out one of Rome's most ancient structures, the Pantheon. Standing for nearly two thousand years, it dates to nearly 120 AD, when the emperor Hadrian built the Pantheom over Marcus Agrippa's original temple. Here you will find the tombs of kings Vittorio Emanuel II (if you have never heard of him wait until you come to Italy, every street ...

Well now we can say “When in Rome, do as the Romans do......” Which we're not sure entirely what they do, but we are sure it is along the lines of what we've been doing. Eating pasta, walking a lot, eating lots of pizza and gelati, drinking lots of wine and coffee (well not in Shona's case) and seeing lots of ruins. After all that's what la dolce vita is all about. Oh and of coarse queuing.

To put it like a fellow Aussie “You have got to be bloody joking!” as th...

Well we were promised a free weekend and by damn we want our free weekend. As we told you before we wanted to see the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, but the price was just to much for us. So with only half a day gone before we got kicked out of the Vatican we headed straight for the Forum to see if the Romans could live up to their promise. We had walked all the way here and there was no indication that the Forum was for free, well isn't that just great. Oh wait a minute. Yes they have fulfil...

We had been living in London for a few years but both my mom and I are from Rome, so we
spent a week reassuring friends and family that we'd be allright. 

They still thought we were mad...

Got in to rome late in the arvo. Decided to skip walking tour [ankle again] in favour of going my own pace tomorrow. did some washing, chilled out by the pool, waited for others to get back [about 7.30 so they said!]
By 9pm was sick of waiting so made myself a picnic dinner out the front of our cabin - crackers, avocado, fresh tomatos, strawberries and nectarines, all of which i had bought in orvieto, across from the cute little theatre I fought. plus a bottle of lovely orvieto white wine....

Another flight With Cathy Pacific 1.5 Hrs ahead of flight plan on arrival 05.30 am in Rome Not feeling to flash still taking anti biotics Straight though customs and looking for car hire Waiting for friends Bruce And Pell to arrive from Perth on Singapore airlines Due 07.30 Flight 50/50 , Pre booked car hire in Perth With drive away holidays , At car hire desk a few problems no car available in grouped ordered given another but downgraded plus advised not enough insurance so asked to pay extr...