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Published: April 22nd 2008
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Good afternoon all-
Made it to Roma today, sad to leave Malta, but excited to start a new country. Both of us were very nervous to get to Italy due to the language differences. However we quickly adjusted and realized that pointing and nodding has no language barriers. We were welcomed with some rain sprinkles but we thought we would head out from our hostel in search of the Colosseo (Colliesiem). We stumbled upon it after winding down some back alleys and a stop for real Italian pizza. We wandered around the Colosseo this afternoon and Lynday kept getting mad at me because I was trying to picture Favre running out of one of the tunnels. Its amazing to think that stadiums were such a part of ancient times. We stopped at a quiet restuarant for dinner, we had pasta of course, which true to everything we have heard is wonderful. Plus the vino is excellent, we love to randoming pick a bottle of wine off the wine list and tasting the local varieties. Not much else planned for tonight, I think we are going to hit the sack early as we closed down another Maltese bar last night called
Peppies. The owner (Peppie) left the place open for us and 4 guys from Bulgaria, it was quite interesting learning about their views of the US. Hope all is well and we love checking your comments everyday.
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Chow, Jason
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Lyndsay here. I LOVE LOVE LOVE reading the comments and messages that you are all sending, we look forward to it everyday. Mom, I am gettign your messages after all, so keep me posted on my naughty boy, Stuart. As you can see from teh photos we posted, he can be easily replaced! Kidding, that dog, Floyd, was a pale comparision to my boys. Floyd was an ugly littel MExican Chihuahua, but I have displaced love syndrome. As Jason alluded, we spent some time at Peppiàs bar last night with 4 new Bulgarian young men. They work in Malta. We discussed minimum wage and Euro conversion, entirely interesting, REALLY! Jason spent a long time talking to Peppi abou cost of gas, food, etc ... and then they totally geeked out and pulled
Inside the Collesieum
We should have paid more attention in history class, we dont know how to spell! out calculators to discuss cost analyis and Euro-Dollar conversion. Jason was in his element, let me tell you.
We arrived in Rome midafternoon, and checked into our first hostel. 100% better than I could have imagined. I have visions from the movie HOSTEL, so I hope some psychopath doesnt sell me to a Romanian hoping to cut off my toes. When we checked in, it was just Jason and I so far in a room. The room capacity is 6 persons (mixed gender) with 3 bunk beds. We have not been back since 3 pm, and it is now 9.30 pm, so I hope the room is still just he and I. I can get over the idea of sleeping in a room with strangers, oddly enough, but I have trouble with the idea of waking up in pajamas to a weird foreigner lookìng at me, trying to see through my t shirt (at least that is how I imagine it). In any event, the hostel is very safe, secured building, security reception 24 hours, and a deadbolt to lock the room - I will be ok, just have to get through this first night to verify that I
can in fact, do this.
As Jason stated, we went to THE COLLOSO today. It is and was fabulous, and fairly not busy. I am continually floored that Rome was built up around the ancient colliseum, adn all the old 2000 year old remnants of ancient Rome. It is weird how you can just turn the corner, and, whoa, there it is. It is also weird how the modern Rome is intermingled with the ancient buildings. Literally, some people have apartments-flats that look over the colliseum, from across the street. How strange to live right across teh street from one of the most popularly visited places on earth! (by the way, I do not usually type with so many mispellings, but this computer keyboard is crappy, and there are a lot fo weird arabic kets, which are in place of our usual keys).
Tomorrow we are going on a guided tour of the Vatican. I am very excited, though generally speaking, I do not have much interest in museums and churches and artwork. However, how can I not be excited, its the VATICAN! Our tour allows up to skip the long 6 hour lines and get into special
rooms that are not generally open to the public. So, we shoud get a good tour of the church, the museum, the sistene chapel, St. Peters square, etc ... we shoud most certainly have fun things to write about tomorrow. Anyway, we are off to bed, and I am anxious (Read- scared) to go back to the hostel and see what international delight awaits me in my room! Keep teh comments and messages coming! Love you all!
Jason just took a photo of me having a swig of vino while I type this entry, so we are going to upload that too!. Scroll down. I love the wine, not only is it good, but this bottle of local cost us 4 Euro, or 6.50 US, cannot beat that, right!
Lyndsay
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Maggie Moss
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Love hearing about your trip - and it is an excellent distraction from the actual work I should be doing. I look forward to the next entry...