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Rome.. Y U NO have toilet seats?
12 years ago
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Seriously, what's up with that?
Anyway, just got back from a 5 day vacation to Rome with my mom, and wow, what a difference in culture, language, and of course temperature. Going from 12 to 15 degrees Celsius to 26 to 29 in one flight. Didn't need a sweater all week. And not a cloud in the sky, most of the time.
The first day we arrived at 7 PM, and after figuring out how the public transportation worked, we got out of the metro at our stop. And with 4 different exits we just took one and got lost pretty fast. We asked for directions, and learned that Italians don't really spend time to learn English. At least, not those who we talked to >.>
The next day, after buying a Roma Pass, gaining us three days of transport on bus, tram or metro, we decided to go visit the Colosseum. Here we encountered what we would see more and more later on in the next few days; construction. For some reason Rome decided this month was the perfect time to start working on all their most famous tourist attractions and/or fountains. After that my mom and I wanted to visit the Via Borghese, because she wanted to show me some famous statue, but there they told us we couldn't enter because we didn't have a reservation, and the next available spots would be on sunday.. and we were leaving on friday.. so I'll just Google it or something >.>
Oh well, after that we decided to look up a Internet area to catch up on email and youtube, and later that night took a free tour going from the Spanish stairs down to Fontana di Trevi, which took 2 and a hours of walking and talking. Ate spaghetti like a true Italian afterwards; with just a fork.
On wednesday we went to the Vatican Museum, and that's when I realized something... I had never seen so much penis in my life until I visited the Vatican Museum.. I know it's art and stuff, but jeeze, think about the children XD
Anyway, my mom sent some postcards from the Vatican Post office, with its own authentic Vatican stamps, Unfortunately we couldn't visit the Basilica di St. Pietro, because apparently the pope was visiting that day, meeting with pilgrams and such, causing the line to get in to be enormous. I couldn't see where it started or ended O.o
On Thursday we had planned a tour to see Pompei. We got up at 6.30 to go to the meeting point on 7.30, since the bus ride there took 3 hours. We spent 4 hours there, most of the people coming with taking tour guide for 2 hours, and we got to see how the people lived and built their lives before the Vesuvius volcano covered its entire city with ashes. They even had fast food courts there! And to top it all, its own whore house, specially made for sailors to relieve some stress. The rooms had pictures above the doors for the sailors to point out what they wanted. And if it got dark, and the sailors wanted to find their way to them, they would howl out of the windows, giving them all the nickname "Lupanare", as Lupa is 'she-wolf' in Latin. The only problem were the roads. Google it to see what I mean. But that's not all what happened that day. After coming back from another 3 hour trip on the bus, the hotel staff told us our travel agency had filed for bankruptcy, and to make it even better, they told us they hadn't paid them the money I paid to make this trip possible, so I had to cough that out of my sleeves as well. It's a good thing I happened to have the €586,95 on my bank account at the moment >.>
The hotel staff kept apologizing, but I told him it wasn't his fault.
On friday, we packed our bags, and left them at the hotel while we spent our last day in Rome visiting the Basilica di St. Pierto, the line incredibly smaller than wednesday, and I managed to climb all the way to the top, giving me a good look over the city, but killing my legs on the way down. We also found a market with stands selling all kinds of stuff like sunglasses, shoes, watches and clothes. Found myself a Avenged Sevenfold t-shirt and sweater, which I never expected there in the first place. Speaking of which, is listening to their music inside the St. Pietro's church a bad thing? I started to wonder about that after hearing the lyrics "I looked the devil in the eye" >.> <.<
But unfortunately, our time in Rome had ended, and we picked up our bags, exchanged names with the ever so nice and cheerful hotel staff, again telling him it was not his fault, and set off to catch our train to the airport. After almost fearing we had missed our flight, we got on board and found out two other passengers hadn't checked in yet, so that took a lot of stress off of our backs. And after leaving Rome and its 24 degrees Celsius, we arrived back in Amsterdam and its 7 degrees Celsius, making us think back of all the fun we had of visiting the churches Tom Hanks went through in the movie Angels & Demons...
By the way, I have spent 5 days without a keyboard, so bear with me if you find any spelling errors D:
Anyway, just got back from a 5 day vacation to Rome with my mom, and wow, what a difference in culture, language, and of course temperature. Going from 12 to 15 degrees Celsius to 26 to 29 in one flight. Didn't need a sweater all week. And not a cloud in the sky, most of the time.
The first day we arrived at 7 PM, and after figuring out how the public transportation worked, we got out of the metro at our stop. And with 4 different exits we just took one and got lost pretty fast. We asked for directions, and learned that Italians don't really spend time to learn English. At least, not those who we talked to >.>
The next day, after buying a Roma Pass, gaining us three days of transport on bus, tram or metro, we decided to go visit the Colosseum. Here we encountered what we would see more and more later on in the next few days; construction. For some reason Rome decided this month was the perfect time to start working on all their most famous tourist attractions and/or fountains. After that my mom and I wanted to visit the Via Borghese, because she wanted to show me some famous statue, but there they told us we couldn't enter because we didn't have a reservation, and the next available spots would be on sunday.. and we were leaving on friday.. so I'll just Google it or something >.>
Oh well, after that we decided to look up a Internet area to catch up on email and youtube, and later that night took a free tour going from the Spanish stairs down to Fontana di Trevi, which took 2 and a hours of walking and talking. Ate spaghetti like a true Italian afterwards; with just a fork.
On wednesday we went to the Vatican Museum, and that's when I realized something... I had never seen so much penis in my life until I visited the Vatican Museum.. I know it's art and stuff, but jeeze, think about the children XD
Anyway, my mom sent some postcards from the Vatican Post office, with its own authentic Vatican stamps, Unfortunately we couldn't visit the Basilica di St. Pietro, because apparently the pope was visiting that day, meeting with pilgrams and such, causing the line to get in to be enormous. I couldn't see where it started or ended O.o
On Thursday we had planned a tour to see Pompei. We got up at 6.30 to go to the meeting point on 7.30, since the bus ride there took 3 hours. We spent 4 hours there, most of the people coming with taking tour guide for 2 hours, and we got to see how the people lived and built their lives before the Vesuvius volcano covered its entire city with ashes. They even had fast food courts there! And to top it all, its own whore house, specially made for sailors to relieve some stress. The rooms had pictures above the doors for the sailors to point out what they wanted. And if it got dark, and the sailors wanted to find their way to them, they would howl out of the windows, giving them all the nickname "Lupanare", as Lupa is 'she-wolf' in Latin. The only problem were the roads. Google it to see what I mean. But that's not all what happened that day. After coming back from another 3 hour trip on the bus, the hotel staff told us our travel agency had filed for bankruptcy, and to make it even better, they told us they hadn't paid them the money I paid to make this trip possible, so I had to cough that out of my sleeves as well. It's a good thing I happened to have the €586,95 on my bank account at the moment >.>
The hotel staff kept apologizing, but I told him it wasn't his fault.
On friday, we packed our bags, and left them at the hotel while we spent our last day in Rome visiting the Basilica di St. Pierto, the line incredibly smaller than wednesday, and I managed to climb all the way to the top, giving me a good look over the city, but killing my legs on the way down. We also found a market with stands selling all kinds of stuff like sunglasses, shoes, watches and clothes. Found myself a Avenged Sevenfold t-shirt and sweater, which I never expected there in the first place. Speaking of which, is listening to their music inside the St. Pietro's church a bad thing? I started to wonder about that after hearing the lyrics "I looked the devil in the eye" >.> <.<
But unfortunately, our time in Rome had ended, and we picked up our bags, exchanged names with the ever so nice and cheerful hotel staff, again telling him it was not his fault, and set off to catch our train to the airport. After almost fearing we had missed our flight, we got on board and found out two other passengers hadn't checked in yet, so that took a lot of stress off of our backs. And after leaving Rome and its 24 degrees Celsius, we arrived back in Amsterdam and its 7 degrees Celsius, making us think back of all the fun we had of visiting the churches Tom Hanks went through in the movie Angels & Demons...
By the way, I have spent 5 days without a keyboard, so bear with me if you find any spelling errors D:
Renaki05
Redguardian
BoyKingKilla
Chittebengo
~chittebengo
Did... did the postcards have penises on them?
Natsuke
~natsuke
OP
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure you could get a hold of those
