Backpacking Europe

Rome

DAY ONE: July 9
So after a long night in the airport where I managed to break my lock we actually got alot of sleep. I felt quite safe and secure about my things. We found a quiet sport and made a little nest over our things. We arrived in Rome very easily. There is no customs that we had to go through. You just walk down a hallway that says if you have something to declare or not and your free to wander Rome. We arrived around 1 in the afternoon and immediately had issues with the language gap when asking for directions to our hostel... We finally found it and lazed around. All the travelling is really catching up to us and we needed some sleep time. We made our way downtown around 5 to find some food and all I wanted was a burger. All there is is PIZZA. Andrew would love it here. We found HArd Rock and sat for some all american food. After that I did my first shopping of the trip it was so great to find stuff I liked at a decent price, and it means clean clothes for 2 days!!! We finally accidently found the colleseum and I am so excited to go tour it. The way the town is built around the ruins is incredible.

DAY TWO: July 10
Today we went to Pompeii. It was HUGE I don't think I ever percieved how large it was. Even though we had 4 hours to muck about we still didnàt see everthing. We did see the highlights and I have over 100 pictures. We saw first hand all the pervy Italian boys hitting on 14 year old girls at our restuarant and it was halarious, the are absolutely shameless. After our long day, we caught the bus at 730am which meant leaving our hotel at like 620am and got home well after 7pm.

DAY THREE: July 11
Today we saw the Colloseo, Palatine Hill and the Pantheon. It was a busy day of walking around. All the ruins are so indiscribeable I have so many pictures, I have no idea how I'm going to scrapbook them. We ate a very affordable lunch right in front of the Colleseo, the waiter thought I was crazy when I asked how much drinks were instead of just ordering but we've learnt our lesson. While wandering around we found a market kinda like the fork but outside and I bought a Prada knock off thats beautiful. I talked her down from 35 € to 25€ I tried to pretend I only had 20 but she didnàt buy it and I reaklly wanted the purse before we leave. I remember not taking a deal for sunglasses in San Fran and regret it. Tonight we'll take it easy and the plan for tomorrow is to see the Vatican, I hope its coldand rainy because I have to cover my legs and arms... Today we had sun showers which was nice compared to the heat weàve had for the last week, its very draining especially when your walking around so much.

DAY FOUR: July 12
Today we saw the Vatican and St. Peters it was beautiful but the lines were ridiculous. It absolutely disgusted me with its commercialism. We wandered around and saw the Spanish Steps and several different squares and monuments. That night we had a crappy sleep in the airport before we headed to Booishot for some much needed TLC.