Man have I had a crazy last couple of weeks!!

In my last post I mentioned I was heading to Rome soon-and that was two weeks ago! What an amazing place it was as well, I would have to say visiting Rome has been my best vacation in life so far. It may have only been three days but man did I pack a lot into a little amount of time!

I arrived on Monday with Lorenzo, one of the other American students, and we were meant to meet the owner of the flat where we were staying at 1:00pm but our flight got in an hour early so we found ourselves waiting outside the apartment building for a little over an hour. Luckily we made a friend while we were sitting in the courtyard:

After getting the keys to our flat we took a few minutes to settle in before we met up with the owner of our hostel at a local cafe and he helped direct us on where to go and how to get there and what to do during our stay. He had a large map on which he drew so many arrows and circles that by the end both Lorenzo and I could hardly read it! After our little rendezvous we decided that even though it was getting dark we wanted to get a head start with our new map so Lorenzo and I decided to walk to the Colosseum since it supposedly wasn’t that far. What was supposed to be a 15 minute walk turned into a nearly 40 minute walk even though we had the map right in front of our noses. Eventually we made it to the grand building though by that time is was quite dark, something which turned out to be in our favor as there were not many tourists scattered around and we were able to have a great experience walking around the colosso at night.

On our way back to our hostel we stopped by a little hole in the wall take away restaurant that was amazingly still open where I got my first slice of real Italian pizza, and it was delicious! From there it was off to bed to prepare for day 2, and for the arrival of our other friend Porscha who had been held back in England.

Day 2 began quite hilariously as we accidentally slept in until nearly one, and then we locked ourselves out of or hostel with no phones. Luckily we had out day bags so we decided to just go out and visit the sites and worry about getting home later. We walked nearly all day visiting almost all of the major sites along the way:

After a long day it was time to go pick up Porscha and get our keys and phone situation sorted out. Luckily the owner of the flat was able to meet me back at the hostel so I could get our things while Lorenzo made sure Porscha got to our hostel. Since it was getting late again we decided to break out the map and try out some of the classy restaurants our host had told us about to get some real Italian food.

The next day we made sure to set an alarm so that we would not sleep in, and after watching the presidential election speech we got up and got prepared for our biggest day yet. We had a quick breakfast at the local cafe before setting out to get our tickets for finally entering the Colosseum. What a surreal experience it all was. To actually be there in person was very strange, but we made sure to stop and sit and really let it sink in.

From there we went to see all the other major sites like Trevi, the pantheon, capitol hill, and the Vatican.

Sadly our last day came to an end far too quickly and as our flight was quite early the next day we had another early night. Rome was an absolute dream and I still am having trouble with the fact that I was actually in one of the most amazing and historical cities in the world! Now back to school life and real work. Until next time!!