Crowne Plaza Rome

... . How the heck can they make a living out of selling those hidious things. Who the heck would buy them... Well The Contessa of course. So there we were parading down the Crowne Plaza with these stupid hats on. Thank goodness it wasnt the Tuscan ...

... Rome, Assisi, Venice, Montecatini and Sorrento and enjoyed ice-cream in all of them! Day 1 - ROME  relaxed at the Crowne Plaza Rome-St Peter's pool, went for welcome drinks and then off to our first evening event. Dinner and a drive through the ...

... , not just tourists but vendors trying to hawk goods.  Tom and I each tossed a coin in, which supposedly insures our return to Rome.  And we definitely want to come back, it's a beautiful and gracious city.   The last thing we wanted to see ...

... take advantage of the fact that we had no tours booked and were just doing our own thing. Today we planned to explore ancient Rome so after a quick breakfast in the hotel (more on that later) we headed out to Piazza Di Campidoglio after again trying to ...

... ruins.  The Palatine is made up of lots of brick ruins and pastures.  It was one of the original settlements in Rome, and excavation crews are constantly digging up more ruins.  From there we made our way down to the Forum.  Old ruins ...

We're headed to Rome today, but our train doesn't leave until 7 pm.  So we repacked all of our stuff and checked out of the room.  The hotel was kind enough to hold our luggage for us.   Our original plan was to run around Paris and see ...

... most celebrated buildings. Once in Rome, perhaps start the evening with a ‘passeggiata’ (traditional evening stroll). Rome comes alive at night; enjoy cosmopolitan squares like the Piazza Navona with its beautiful fountains, or the Via Veneto ...

... a slight disappointment in that it wasn’t what we expected. We felt we had seen more beautiful churches just around Rome, but there was no doubt that the ceiling was spectacular, but the building itself seemed quite uninspired. The tour wrapped up ...

... , so we took it.  It was only 18 euro!  The other guy was trying to rip us off!   We're staying in the Crowne Plaza, which is a real treat, and it even has a pool.  The room is at least twice the size of the place we stayed at in ...

Llegada a Roma al Hotel Crowne ...

... in the little takeaway shop for our troubles. We then caught the bus back to the hotel and went next door to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where cocktails and nibblies made for a nice quiet evening, before going back to our inferior hotel. Fortunately, some of ...

... out because we have seen it, and it is amazing. Nigel had a good chat and lent out a lens to the Sales Manager of the Crowne Plaza in London who was shooting at the Colosseum also with a 40D. At one point Megan witnessed the rip off gladiators at work, ...

... too much to see and do. We would need a lifetime to see it all. There are ancient ruins everywhere. Every corner you turn in the city has ancient buildings, statues, obelisks, fountains, etc. There's nothing like Rome. Love you all, Michelle and ...

... has been in place for roughly 300 years, which is not too shabby. The really old stuff comes tomorrow when we tour ancient Rome. We later realized that perhaps the restaurant was not the most authentic since it caters for tourists, but what the hell, it ...

... and jumped a Taxi to Piazza Del Popolo as we didn't want to risk missing the tour because of our inexperience with Rome’s public transport system. The bus hit the road around 7:40am and the whole bus went silent except for the occasional snore. The ...

Well we had a full day yesterday here in Rome.  Walked for over 5 hours.  And yes, Annette did real well with her new knee.  As we have already seen most of the popular sights on our last visit here, we just strolled around and admired the ...

... wine with lunch!   We decided to brave the metro system to get back to our hotel.  It was so easy this time, Rome only has two metro lines.  We ended up back in our neighborhood, but still pretty far from the hotel.  After waiting for ...