This past weekend my two friends Jenn and Pip and I all made the two hour trip to Rome Italy! None of us had ever been to Italy and were all very excited about what we were going to encounter on this adventure. We left Thursday night and took a bus to Liverpool where we stayed in a cheap hotel, which was actually very nice. We then got up at 4am to have to time get to the airport for a 6:30 departure. It was brutal but we all caught some sleep on the flight. We flew with Ryanair which is the cheapest place to get flights. We arrived on time and the moment the aircraft stopped a song blared through the speakers all about Ryanair and there ontime flight yet again. This was a very surprising and funny thing to hear, as none of us on all our travels had never travelled with an airline that had its own theme song.
We then took a bus to the city where we walked to our Hostel called Yellow. This was a nice hostel that was in the middle of the city so it was easy to walk to all the places we wanted to go without needing to take a bus. It rained for the first hour and then turned into a beautiful day that was in the 60s this is amazing saying that it rains in Manchester literally all the time. Seeing sunshine was amazing and uplifting.
After the rain stopped we went and explored the city and planned our next couple days. We decided to do a bar crawl with night scenes of the city, including the Trevi fountain and a few other sites. This was all through our hostel. We met one of our roommates at the hostel who was from Ireland named Conner who also went on the crawl with us. Once in the Yellow bar we met Vesko who was from Belguim. The tour was given by an already drunk guy named Tad from Iowa of all places. Now this seemed very odd that our tour guide of Italy was from the U.S. However, he proved to be a great tour guide who added funny lines about the city. Over all the night ended at three am, which was full of a lot walking and laughing our new friends, many of who drank way too much at the open bar portion of the night.
The next day we spent on a tour of the city seeing the main attractions. To save some space I'm going to link you all to my Photo page where you can see all of these adventures.
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On our wanderings we saw many side streets that at night were the home to many outside seatings of resturaunts that were so cute and we really wanted to enjoy the same experience. So we decided to splurge a little and go and have a late dinner (which is the norm in Italy) and ate at about 10pm at a little place that had candle lit tables. The food was amazing with great service. However, to take advantage of the time before dinner we decided to try and find this Gelato place that was reccommended by our tour guide called Old Bridge. We expected it to be over priced with not that much ice cream like we'd experienced before. However, this was not the case at all. I got three choices of flavors for 1.50 euro's. AND free whipped cream. On top of that the ice cream was unbelievable and left us wanting more. We then went to a Wine Bar that included free food, kind of a surprise when they were really good. I also had fried peanuts for the first time. Dad I thought of you while eating them, thinking about how much you'd love them:) From there we dashed off to our amazing dinner where we were the last table/people on the whole street, which to passerby's seemed very weird and we got very funny looks. We ended the night at the Trevi, by this time it was midnight and we just sat and took in the site that was before us, the beauty. No one spoke we just relived the best weekend of our lives. My mind drifted to everyone at home wishing I could show them what I was seeing, wanting to run the cities with them. But alas that is not possible so I took pictures instead. So please take a look at my pictures, I hope you love them. Happy Fall to you all. I miss you all.
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