River Chateau Hotel
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When the moon hits your eye
Ah Rome! It's been an experience already and we've only been here for three hours... :) We arrived this morning from Nice and housing was our first objective. Melissa Thorne had already arranged through a website to stay at a convent this evening, but for some reason, even though the credit card had been charged we never received the address or …
Doce Vita
... if anything maybe more active than Plaza Navona. The centre piece is the Pantheon. What a marvellous structure, still more or less intact after all these centuries. A lot of the marble facade had been 'recycled' by merchants and the church for their own decorations. The secret to its longevity is the re-branding of the use of the structure. It contains the tombs of Italian kings, churches and other mixed uses. It is free ...
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!
... where I had CouchSurfed, I made my way to a circus shop, bought three cheap juggling balls and a magic marker, and went to Sacré-Cœur. After making a few small signs on cardboard saying "You are beautiful!" and "Vous etes magnifique!" I made one big one with the words "Talentless man trying to get to Barcelona" and then started juggling to the best of my ability. Soon enough someone who actually knew how to juggle came by ...
Arrivederci
... closed. We were left with only one option: a taxi. Now, normally a taxi would have been a welcome change, but when living on a budget the extra money needed to take one of these hurts ever so slightly. Still, it was better than staying in an airport all night, and we arrived at our hotel convent earlier than we had expected.
Now, Sabrina had originally told me that this hotel was a convent, but upon closer look, Casa Tro Noi couldn’t be considered a ...
Mussolini.. alpiste! Mezquita en Roma y Vaticano!
... a Campo Sportivo que estaba cerrado y nos dejó una estación después. Bajamos y en un italiano champurreado preguntamos "escuzi, fermata campo sportivo chiusa?" y nos dijeron que sí, que estaba cerrada pero era a 2 cuadras y media. Agarramos la calle lateral y llegamos a la mezquita en 2 minutos, ahí en la puerta tuvimos que hablar en árabe y utilizando nuestra poliglotéz (jaja) les explicamos que éramos de Argentina y queríamos hacer as-salat. ...