Welcome to Rome! We ended up leaving Florence a bit later than expected due to our siesta and last minute shopping (Yes Angela, I finally bought myself a souvenir, a tee-shirt!) so we arrived in Rome around 8pm. The hostel here is really nice, free breakfast and they also adverstised free pizza dinner at their sister hostel (more about that later). The first night we ate a late dinner at a local restaurant and had a delicious pasta dinner. Our norms are pasta, wine, water and bread. Now surprisingly the bread served at restaurants in Italy mostly is bad, it tastes horrible and even with all the olive oil and pepper we put it on it, its still not very good. Our first full day we tackeled the Vatican and boy was that fun. We ended
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