Last year, in September, my boyfriend Dominic and I travelled out to Rome. My first holiday in about 10 years, but for Dominic, the trip is regular as his uncle and aunt live out there. Eugiene and Katia.
For as long as I have loved art, I always wished to see the Sistene Chapel and last year I had the chance!! What a holiday! Made all the more affordable (thank goodness) by the fact that we have family there. Saying that though, renting an appartment for a week or so is a good way of holidaying there. As there is so much to see I think having a base where you can completely relax is preferable. You can make pack lunches and your own meals aswell, which saves some money. Not that the food is mega expensive or anything.
It is reasonable and delicious in most restaurants. I will add some links to our favourites and give you some run downs on some of the dishes I recommend!
Today I am going over the list of places I'd like to go back to and some new sights I want us to put on our agenda. We are going for 13 days, including travel days.
It takes about 2 hours 45 mins to fly there and we will be catching a flight at about 6am (blurg) but that is good realy as it gives us a whole day. So an early night and plenty of sleep is on the cards, especially as Dominic and his family have a tradition of visiting the Collosseum on the first day. So on getting there at about 9 ish, it will after the time difference be 10 ish. We'll meet up with Eugiene or Katia to get the appartment keys, drop off our luggage and make our way to the Collosseum.
The best way to travel around the city is by metro, which is an underground train service. Each journey costs a euro and you can cross over to other platforms and journey as far as you can as long as you don't leave the station. and the bus is approximately the same. We mostly take the metro. Everything is pretty close together.
You get the B line metro to Colosseo station and when you come out, there it is!!! You can buy a tecket to go in for about 9 euros and if you pay a bit extra (and it is definately worth it) you can also take a walk around the Forum, which was a sort of massive thriving central high street system! It is excellent!
Avoid buying crap from street sellers because half the time they are bad quality and you will find the same thing for a similar price in a normal shop...in fact wait until a later date to buy souvenirs. And before I forget, bring a small fold away umberella if you are visiting in the later months, because there are flash showers now and then.
For eats, I suggest grabbing an espresso (the tea is expensive) and a sprite/water, then look for a pizza place. Oh my god the pizza is to die for. In most cases, you will find that they cook long rectangles of deliciously topped pizza and they sell it to you by weight...which is really handy.
Also try a suppli or two...these are rice or potato balls with various fillings. Very filling and yummy!!
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