Hotel Aberdeen Rome

... view from behind the Senate Building. We had dinner back near the hotel at a place named Toscanella, at 53 via Modena, right next door to my current favorite hotel in Rome, Adler at number 55, but, of course, back then I had no idea even where I was. ...

... ) towards the “hot” side! For my first evening back in Europe, I usually ask the front desk staff at the Hotel for recommendations on nearby restaurants.  As I’m usually tired and jet lagged, I’m not in the mood to wander ...

... , however, we decided to take a taxi to our hotel, instead of struggling with the public transportation. Taxi charges are controlled in Rome but from the airport it cost 70 Euro to get to The Aberdeen Hotel, which is in the northeast part of the ...

... , it was another 90 minutes to Rome where our bus let us off at Piazza della Repubblica. We walked 5 minutes to our hotel to settle in. Rome, the eternal city, is a big metropolis where there seem to be more motor-scooters than people. In actuality, ...

... stand in line for about an hour before we could purchase our tickets.  After we did that, we walked our luggage to the hotel, which was 5 minutes away...lovely!  We were quite jet-lagged, so we did not do any site-seeing that evening.  All ...

Sunday May 18 - Since our taxi ride to the hotel we have walked everywhere (about 8 or 9 miles a day according to Lynnette's pedometer) and shortened our treks with the bus or metro train. We have been having a great time trying to pack in as much as we ...

I've been having a great time in Rome (until last night when I got sick with a cold or flu). Internet access has been a challenge, though, so most of my blog will have to be entered later. I have pages of observations on my laptop but have no way to get ...

... city's history is enormously complex, here one building holds the legacy of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, Industrial, and Modern Rome. It serves as a bookmark that helps us note both where we've come and where we've been. And it ...

... "cathedra" in the apse. And as mentioned elsewhere, he designed the Trevi Fountain. Cardinal Borghese constructed a villa in northern Rome, surrounded it with luscious parkland and gardens, and went about turning it into a virtual museum to display much ...

... Moccaccino made me happy. When we got to Rome, it was sunny! And warm too. We are staying at the Hotel Nardizzi, which is just down the street from the Aberdeen, where I stayed in 2004, so at least I kind of know the neighborhood. Lest we get too happy ...

... Roman Senate's meeting hall, was preserved for centuries as a church. Today it provides space for museum exhibits. Near my hotel and the train station, another church is housed in the ancient Baths of Diocletian. Its sheer enormity and architectural ...

As the ruins strewn about the Forum indicate, Rome had a decline ... a fabled, steep decline. That in itself is remarkable, but even more amazing was that once it hit bottom, Rome bounced. The Dark Ages were unkind to the city. As his army failed to ...

... than in August of 1992, and we actually got to see some stuff in a much more relaxing manner. Then we strolled up via Nazionale to the hotel. That night we ate at Da Giovanni, again near the hotel and prepared for the next day; we hoped a trip to Naples. ...

... at.  Oh well! After making our way back over to Hong Kong Island, we boarded a double decker bus and went to Aberdeen.  Aberdeen is an area on the south side of the Island where there are many boat people.  You can pay them to take ...

... up a bit early this morning as I accidentally set my alarm for 06:15. Despite being Sunday there were a few people in the Hotel Aberdeen breakfast room and the same staff as the previous day. After breakfast I went back to the room and decided to spend a ...

... the hostel who has blatantly pulled my pants down over the price, but it saved me a trip to the embassy i suppose . Going over to Aberdeen to have a look so let us know how you all are and i'm going to try and get some pictures up soon. Keep ...

... MARY LOOK AT THAT GIANT ROCK-IT MUST BE BIGGER THAN LOUSIANNA types. It didn't help that the weather was worse than Aberdeen's - full of mist and given my current mood (the circumstances! the circumstances..I was so looking forward to becoming a devout ...