Hotel Raffaello

... @ 11:00AM GMT+1         Arrive Rome @ 12:10PM GMT+1 7/9 - =In Rome=  (Hotel: Hotel Raffaello) 7/10 - Depart Rome @ 7:40AM GMT+1           Arrive London @ 9:15AM GMT ...

... Long story short, we walked around it for a bit, got some shots, saw the gladiators wanting photo ops for a fee, and headed back to Raffaello to get into our room.  I laid down for a second to get horizontal, seeing that I have been up for almost 26 ...

... Cavour from Termini Station, I got the map out and sussed it.  Only a 10 minute walk with the trolley suitcase to our hotel.  via Cavour is a busy road, via Urbana one street in where our hotel was situated was a lovely quiet little street and ...

As soon as we left the hotel we were, as usual in Italy, approached by Indian hawkers. So many hawkers and not one of them Italian. We chose a hop on hop off bus from the 3 that were on offer. We got off at the Vatican. Joined the masses passing the ...

... was closed. Not much to see...... On to Rome. The train trip passed lots of countryside not dissimilar to Australian – minus the eucalypts of course. Once in Rome found our hotel, again not too far from the station and found a nice place for ...

... to mass and actually got to take communion at St. Peters (though not from the pope!). That was a full day for us.  I took a few photos of St Peter’s square as we made our way to the taxi stand and back to the hotel. Tomorrow, Naples and ...

... thousand lire note. A fellow tourist later expressed amazement at my generosity as the going rate was really a thousand lire. Back on land Raffaello led us up the hill to look at the sights of Capri and Anacapri. We lunched at a fancy hotel where ...

... ) of Raffael's School of Athens, which adorns the former apartments of Pope Julius II, and now is located in the Stanze di Raffaello just above the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums. There are chairs placed in front of this great work of art in a room ...

... to our hotel and bed. So that’s yesterday.  A note about the train:  Someone just came by and gave everyone one of those Raffaello  coconut cream candies.  It’s 11:00 in the morning!  Germans love their ...

... della pittura europea con pił di 50.000 pezzi che vanno dal 1550 ad oggi (Monet, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Raffaello, Botticelli, Leonardo) ...e qui si rischia di rimanere vittime della sindrome di Stendhal. Alle 17.30 (causa chiusura) usciamo ...