Casale Dei Cedri Rome

... UCSD is good with that, its just they take a long time,, im pretty sure that itll take a lot longer which is why i suggested u ask ur dad for $$ and then have him keep ur check. We just had orientation dinner with alot of tapas or like "appetizers" but it was good. and then me and my 5 other apartment mates in florence decided to go out and drink wine (which made me red after half a glass.. so embaressing =( lol) and now we are back at our place and its about 1030pm but ...

... Easter. It is the largest Christian Basilica in the world and most of the Popes are buried there. The bronze for the alter was taken from the top of the Pantheon. It was very gaudy. The basilica is in the shape of a Latin Cross. Preparations were being made for the Easter service so there were a lot of extra chairs and activity.
St Peter's Square was also very crowded. The Obelisk in the center was taken from Circus Maximus. Also, the current ...

... you gaze around the super structure and try to take it all in. Imagine, 80,000 spectators came to this very place and watched as gladiators battled to the death, public executions were held and all kinds of animal hunted. I stop here with those details. First, let's examine the facade and then move to the interior.

Standing at the outer most area of the surrounding park, you will note that three of the four ...

He says: While Florence was a bit of a let down Rome easily exceeded even my lofty expectations. Rome is, quite simply, awesome... Yes it is grotty, falling apart and ****ing insane but it is also vibrant, exciting and so full of history that you are literally tripping over it in the streets. So many people had warned us about Rome and nearly convinced me that the place had been ruined by tourists and hawkers. Blatently not the case... I don't know what it is like in the height ...

... He was genuinely surprised I think. He says something that I don't hear but Al does. We head back to the shop/bar area and go up to a bistro kind of place. We get beer. It's just gone 10. The beer is good, I'm calming down, kind of, although I know Al will read this and say "calm down, shmalm down". Ok, my face was returning to a colour just a tone or two down from beetroot. 11.25 the gate number comes up and I'm in the toilet but Al ...

... Rome Ciampino at 10am local time. The weather was gorgeous from the moment we stepped off the plane. We headed through the airport, collected our baggage and made the first mistake of our holiday. We were booked to stay at the Dei Consoli Ciampino, however we had no idea how to get there so took the ignorant option of just taking a taxi, the driver tried to convince us he knew where it was but didnt do a very good job, he drove along the motorway constantly checking out ...

... and continue my apparent vain search when he said something to me in Italian. I turned back and he was holding out a pen and paper for me, urging me to counter his offer. I scrawled 50-euro on the paper and he made a disgusted sort of face and took the pen back. He wrote down 90-euro. I countered yet again with 60. Then he with 80. I offered 70 and with a grin he made the deal at 75, my last concession being that this price would be without breakfast. It was as overpriced as ...

... market. Italians take their cooking seriously; only the freshest is acceptable. Watch the parade of grandmothers on Saturday morning, coming to buy ingredients for a feast. Local hangouts. Where else in the world do kids hang out at the local Pasticeria all night? Words that mean a thousand things. Prego! Please, yes, sorry, thank you, and just about anything else depending on how you intonate your voice. Terms of endearment. It's not uncommon to ...

... big ones and really small ones, everywhere. You can drink out of the small ones, but not the big ones like the Trevi Fountain. We often filled our water bottles up at the little fountains. The water was really crisp and clear. The big fountains were just beautiful. The Trevi fountain was amazing. We got there in the day and it was a little crowded so we came back at night and it was so pretty all lit up. The water looked so nice and I just can't imagine how they ...

... FREE lunch that Craig and Gino had brought. Craig supplied the bread and cheese while Gino offered a different bread and nutella. Plus, I bought an apple from the little shop around the corner. We sat on the steps of some beautiful building as we basked in the nice afternoon sun while we ate. This got me in the mood for sunbathing, so we moseyed on down to Il Campo, the town's main open square with a belltower of comparable size and much different look than the Giotti. There, we ...