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We bid farewell to France, and headed to Italy!! As usual, tour manager Ally played songs suited to the destination - and ofcourse one was 'That's Amore'!!!  Ally had a little competition running on the bus this day - counting the number of tunnels ...

I was in Rome only for the night. Luckily I was able to book a hotel near the train station. I didn't waste time to go to Colosseum. Spanish steps and decided to just spend the rest of my night in St. Peter's Square. Initially, I felt like I was the only ...

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This past weekend, we ventured to beautiful Roma with the rest of our UF in Florence program. On Friday morning, we got up early and walked to the train station at 7:30 am.  We arrived in Rome at about 10:30 and checked into our hotel.  ...

Today was a bitter sweet day.  It was going to be a very exciting tour of the ancient sites of Rome, but it was also the last day that the 6 of us were going to be together.....reality was quickly approaching.  Since we had a rather late night, we all ...

Buon Giorno, Boy did we have a full day in Roma.  For a guy who over plans EVERYTHING, this was a day that pushed my powers of flexibility to the limit.  Just call me Gumby II (like Derek, Gumby I).  I started with us getting off the ship at 8:30am, ...

To piggy back on my Rome entry from yesterday, we did so many things I could hardly remember them all! But I did forget to mention that we made a stop at the Roman Catacombs....very creepy! The guide gave us about a 20 minute intro and then took us all ...

Ciao all and sorry I left you for so long! We had a whirlwind trip to Rome these past two days (Saturday and Sunday), arriving first at the Vatican saturday morning to do the entire day there. Without a doubt that was the most jampacked session I've ...