Roma

After arriving home around 8:30pm after our Parma and Moderna field trip, I got my pre-packed bag and headed to the train station (about a 3 min walk from our apartment) and got a ticket for Roma. I got on the three hour train (it can take an hour, but its about 30 more euros and I had the time) and arrived just after 1am in Roma where my roommate met me and we went to the hotel our program had set up (the program I am studying through has set up a couple of trips that are included). Unfortunately I missed the first day of visiting Tivoli because of my class field trip, but met up with the group for the rest of the trip.


We woke up early (7:30) got ready ate breakfast and met the school group in the lobby by 9am to begin our walking tour of Rome. We got tourist headset pieces, which clearly point you out as a tourist, but I assume being in such a big group anyway would do the same thing. We were divided into two groups (because our program is so big), I was put in the group with my teacher from my cultural class and began walking to the Colosseum. After walking through the Colosseum, we continued on our guided tour to the Foro, Palatino, Pantheon, and Fontana di Trevi. After we had free time until dinner.

We stumbled upon a restaurant near the Pantheon ate lunch and then headed to the Vatican for the rest of the afternoon. Rome is much bigger than Florence, the maps of the cities are comparable, but we found out the hard way that the street sizes while on one map might be a 5 min walk in Florence are more of a 20 min walk in Rome. So we ended up not having a lot of time after walking through the Vatican (we spend 2 hours there) and arrived back at the hotel changed our socks (it had been raining all day) and got ready to leave for dinner. We had a traditional Italian dinner with the entire group near the Pantheon. After my roommates and I headed back to the Trevi fountain to see it at night. Then we headed to the Spanish before going out for the night.

Sunday was a big more relaxing, we still woke up early again and after breakfast had a sightseeing bus tour of Rome. After we had a bit of free time for lunch before we boarded the buses to head back to Florence. We arrived back in Florence around 7. I went straight to bed after the really really long weekend of sightseeing.