Blogs from Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe - page 270

CIAO FRIENDS...I'M SOO SORE..THIS PASS WEEK HAS BEEN CRAZY. MY FAVORITE MALE ITALIAN FRIEND WHOM IS A DJ AND A HOTT NIGHT CLUB IN MILANO, I WENT TO VISIT HIM FOR 3 DAYS. HE DOES TURNTABLES, IN THE CLUB THEY PLAY DISCO AND HIP HOP..HIPHOP YES I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT, BUT THERE HIPHOP DANCING IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM MIND...I AS I DANCED PEOPLE WATCHED ME ON THE DANCE FLOOR. I FELT THE TO CONTIUE DANCING BECAUSE I HAD A CROWD, I ALSO HAD ON HIGH HEELS, CAUSING MY FEET TO HURT IN PAIN. THE NEXT MORNING I WOKE UP FEELING LIKE I LEG PRESSED AN OVERLY LARGE ANIMAL. WELL TIL NEXT TIME SHOW ME SOM LUV ... read more

I arrived in Rome at the ridiculously early hour of 7am on the 21st July. I immediately discovered that it is summer in the northern hemisphere and the temperatures were pushing the high 30's. After a brief train and metro journey I arrived at my hostel, the Pensione Ottaviano. A hostel in a prime location about 100m from the North East corner of the Vatican. Seeing as I had a good 6 hours before Joel, Justin and Barry arrived I decided to set out on my own and do a bit of exploring, I had literally only gone about 20m before I was asked whether I wanted to go on a free tour of the Vatican. Excellent. Our guide took us first to Saint Peter's Basilica. In front of the basilica is St. Peter's Square, a ... read more

Got here around midnight and after some searching found a fairly priced hotel. Spent all day just walking around, looking at all the sights. Personally I liked the colosseum the best, unfortunately we got there too late to enter. In the evening we went to the Trevi Fountain. Viking and Pri walked down to get a nice picture close to the water and immediately one of the guys selling roses came up to them. Pri being from Brazil and just recently coming back from our stop in Morocco very well know their tricks. This guy was persistent though and offered to take their picture on the edge of the fountain. He basically took the camera from Viking and put the entire bouquet of roses in Pri's hands all while she tried hard not to touch them. ... read more

even tho we were both up and out of the campsite by 8am, the queues at the Vatican museums were horrendous - they seemed to go on for miles, with probably about a mile worth of people, about 4/5 across......... Guess what - we didnt bother with it. The end of the queue was right by St.Peter's Square, so we had a look in. As we were looking around in amazement at the structure and the grandure of the place, we noticed a queue building up and people going through an airport scanner, so we had a look and it turned out it was the entrance queue for St.Peter's Basillica and the tombs of the Popes. We did the audio tour of the Basillica, which was good, although a little confusing as the amount of detail ... read more

Right all, Really quick one tonight as running out of time on the meter, but we have arrived in Rome, made it to the campsite in one piece. We will try and update the photos tommorrow for the other blogs, once we get back from the Vatican and its musuems. Hope you are all well and speak soon Darren and Cathy... read more