Verona, Italy, Europe Airplane Today was the last day of our trip, and it cemented the fact that I absolutely love Italy. We woke up, packed up our stuff, and headed out of Lady Capulet Apartments by about 10am. We left our bags at reception, picked up our free rental bikes from the apartment, and headed into the city to explore. We first headed to the furthest church from the city center called San Zeno church, and found that this…
Verona, Italy, Europe Lady Capulet Apartments I really love this country! We started out today with a ridiculous breakfast at the B&B. I don’t know how all Italian people aren’t HUGE based on just what they eat for breakfast. It’s just all sweet things and cakes and breads. I haven’t seen anyone have eggs or bacon or sausage, it’s just cookies, cakes, and pastries. It seems very strange. Of course we didn’t want to be rude, so we partook in…
Bologna, Italy, Europe Mirabilia I finished work for the next couple of weeks today and met Melissa on the tram at the West End. We got to the airport in plenty of time for our flight, which was good because we had to go to the Ryanair desk for them to check Melissa’s visa to come back into the country. Although her visa is good for the next few years, her Colombian passport still means that she will have to…
Rome, Italy, Europe With today being our last full day in Rome, we had to make it count. We woke up early and headed straight for the Coliseum as we hadn’t been over to that side of town yet. We were approached by LOADS of tour operators trying to sell us on a tour of the Coliseum but we brushed them all off because we figured it probably wasn’t worth it. After finding out that the wait to get a…
Rome, Italy, Europe Today was an early rise for us as we had a lot of traveling ahead of us. It was today that made me really thankful that Ryan agreed to drive in Italy! We first drove 2.5 hours down to Pompeii which was the easy part. We spent a few hours walking around the ruins of Pompeii which was pretty impressive. It’s amazing how big this city was, considering it was built in 2nd century BC. Plus, it…
Rome, Italy, Europe Today was the day we were dreading this whole trip: Laundry day! Luckily for us we found a Laundromat just down the road from our hotel, so we bagged all our stuff up and went down there expecting to spend the next few hours waiting and folding. We showed up and fortunately there was a guy working there who said that it would be the same price to leave the clothes with him and just come back…
Rome, Italy, Europe Today we made our way to Rome. It was about a three-hour drive, so we started the day off with another great Hilton breakfast and then hit the road at about 11am. The road was almost completely highway, so it was a nice easy drive, until we hit the busy streets of Rome. We were able to enjoy some nice sights on the way down toward Rome of the Tuscany region and all the vineyards on the…
Florence, Italy, Europe Today started with the best breakfast we’ve had so far on this trip. Hilton hotels really know how to do breakfast! We caught the 11am shuttle into town to have a look at all the sights in the light of day. It really is a beautiful city. The Duomo (Cathedral) is a breathtaking piece of architecture made completely of Italian marble. We had read that the best view of the city is from the Piazzale Michelangelo on…
Florence, Italy, Europe Today started out on a very relaxing note. We figured that we would take the opportunity to go to the beach while we could. We’re not going to be on the coast much more after today until maybe the Amalfi coast later in the week. We also thought we would see if the day crowd in Chiavari was any younger than the one we saw last night. It wasn’t. We went down to the beach at about…
Chiavari, Italy, Europe For our first full day in Italy, we saw A LOT! We started out by taking the metro into the center of Milan from our hotel. It was only meant to take 20 minutes, but considering we took the first metro going the wrong direction and had to turn around and go back, it ended up taking a bit longer, but not bad. It was definitely worth it when we walked out of the metro to the…