September 29, 2006 We were making our way to Sicily; however, we wanted to make one more stop on the mainland of Italy to try and split up the length of time required on train. We had heard how beautiful the drive along the Amalfi Coast was, so we decided to take the bus along […]

September 28, 2006 If you are ever in Italy, I highly recommend that you visit Pompeii. Again, I am not really into history and museums, but I was totally into Pompeii, although I did get warn out after a few hours and things didn’t have as much meaning anymore. According to Wikipedia, Pompeii is a […]

September 27, 2006 We left Rome bright and early, but luckily we timed it so we could still take advantage of our "free" breakfast at the hotel. We gobbled down our breakfast as soon as they opened at 7AM and then made our way to the metro, got off at the Termini stop and caught […]

I enjoyed our visit to Rome more than I anticipated. I enjoyed the historical aspect of the sites more than I anticipated. You could spend a lot of time in Rome, but if you are looking for a chill vacation, I don’t know if this is somewhere where you would want to spend too much […]

September 26, 2006 We made our way back to the colosseum bright and early (9:00). We decided to pay the entrance fee to go inside the colosseum and luckily we arrived before the masses of people started lining up. It was cool to see the inside of the colosseum, although the impressivenss of the structure […]

September 25, 2006 After our lovely sit down breakfast at our hotel, we headed for the metro, which was incredibly crowded, you just have to sandwich yourself in the best you can. Our day began with visiting Piazza Navona, which is a famous square in Rome and for you Dan Brown fans, it was talked […]

September 24 We arrived in Rome at around 2:30 in the afternoon. We took a cheap flight from Bratislava, Slovakia on SkyEurope. Bratislava is only 1.5hours from Vienna, where we were visiting our friends Craig and Sabine. The cheap flights in Europe are awesome!!
We easily found our way to our hotel. We did not book […]

September 25, 2006 The second night in Rome we ate at another restaurant that was close to our hotel. We walked to one restaurant and it was closed, so we quickly found another one because it was pouring! The restaurant we found was called "Speck," it felt sort of like an Italian equivalent of a […]

September 24, 2006 In Rome, we stayed in a nice/affordable hotel in a residential area. There was an Italian restaurant across the road that had a menu with lots of selection - we decided to give it a try. As we were walking into the restaurant, I noticed that the restaurant had a somewhat of […]