Mediterraneo Hotel Rome

... photographer's eye). Just wait until I bring out my camera - there will be no end in sight. I soon arrived at Hotel Mediterraneo. It's a nice hotel. While Granddad waited at the hotel for the room to be ready, Grandma and I went to exchange USD for Euros ...

... me a very long time, so we went back to the hotel.      I was running out of time in Rome by 4:30 when we got back to the hotel. Although I was exhausted, I still needed (or wanted) to do some shopping in Rome before I left for the ...

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 ...

... . 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.  Naturally, checking 150 rowdy college students into a hotel in a foreign country can be a difficult ...

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 ...

... etching and carving on every building in the area.  More churches and statues before we were unleashed to shop for leather goods and gold. Dinner was provided tonight at an Italian restaurant, after which we were back to the hotel for an early ...

... of Roma, you're less likely to finda da englisha speakers. Farewell to Pisa and onto our hotel in Florence, the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo. Once again, we find ourselves in a beautiful hotel, this one sits on the banks of the river Arno and is a short walk ...

... we left Istanbul, but we have been going almost non-stop. It is now Thursday afternoon and we just arrived back at our hotel after a day of touring Herculaneum & Pompei. Tomorrow I will update our travels. We had a difficult journey from Istanbul to ...

... I walked along to the main temples entrance and then into an internet place before heading back to the hotel to relax and dozed off. I them headed to the Mediterraneo restaurant over the road and had a good pizza, even if it was expensive, which would do ...

... (very cool BTW). Then a harrowing bus ride to the hotel on a local bus on streets way too narrow for 2 busses! Ultimately the hotel has a staggering view of the Tyrhennian sea and Mt. Vesivius. Side note - I need a man purse - caught a woman with ...

... both marble & bronze and when we were ready to lay down and sleep in the street, we took a cab back to our hotel and spent the next two hours lolling about, recalling everything that amazed us today. We had a 6.30pm dinner call to a working ...

... on sleep for us. We awoke 12 hours later and at around lunchtime wandered into town for some food. We ate at the Mediterraneo Resturant, Megan having some banana cake and Rick a croissant. The chef there was trained in Rome and all the food is cooked ...

... Cafe Another nice stop at the café in piazza Santa Croce with Nancy and Annette. The café has a name: Finisterrae, Ristorante Mediterraneo. We talked a lot; got some ideas about where I might travel after school ends - Elba, Sardegna, or the coast ...