Saturday, May 23, 2009
Rome to Florence
sorry the post maybe poor in grammer and spelling this is because I donàt have time to revise my post. So we stayed in Rome from Friday to Saturday. Thursday we got to the hostel at about 2pm in the afternoon. We checked in and then found a place to eat. When we finished eating, I slept for the rest of the day because I got sick at the train station in Amsterdam. We met some interesting canadians which seemed a bit more wild then the others we have met on the trip. The next day we went to the Vatican and realised that we got there too late because the crowds were too long. So we decided to take a trip to the Colloseum. We were making our way through the scammers and trying to find the ticket office when this one scammer hooked us and we fell for the his trap. Although it got us in, the tour was very short(around) 20mins and hard to follow because of the Italian guide's thick accent. On receiving our fill of the Colloseum we went over to check out the Pantheon. It was very awe inspiring but we could not get inside. The next day we got up early and went to see the Vatican. Even at 8 in the morning there was a line to get in. We sucked it up and just got in line and waited. To our surprise the line was very fast moving and we were inside in about 15mins. Inside we saw a good amount of Theologically themed artwork. Of course we saw Sistine Chapelle among other things but there was alot of beautiful work in the Vatican. Once we finished with the Vatican we checked to see if we could get another night at our hostel. They tolds us they were all booked so we decided to head to Florence. We got on the train with about 3 minutes to spare and tried to talked to an Italian local who lived in perusia Italy. Stefan did his usual magic act and I tried to help translate the thick accented english one way tried the use some spanish to help convey ideas the other way. Once we got in Florence, we found our hostel and ate at the best Italian food we have had yet in Italy(high prices + poor qualty in Rome = fail). Stay Posted
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this post made me smile :)
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