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When in Rome…

… we didn’t do what the Roman’s do. At all. Instead we took a €16 flooded audio tour bus which took us around the city - to all the Must sees. I would like to say 80% were not Romans and the rest who were, were just trying to con us into uncomfortable territory. Like I don’t want to pay for 2 ketchups being lead into thinking they’re complimentary and automatically have a Large Big Mac meal. They don’t say. They just assume. I wonder what the real Romans do. Maybe they move out of Rome ever since Ryanair starting flying in with £30 tickets. You can’t blame them. But neither can you blame us - it is an amazing city. Every thing is huge, impressive and glorious.

With the aid of our tour bus, today we visited the Colliseum, the Pantheon, the Vatican, the Forums, some Plazas and some nice streets which had some churches. And some McDonald’s. We dipped into the local cuisine - Pizza. It was very nice :] It’s a bit funny, the pizza here is all like square. Yup.

This morning we went to several banks to get Regner some cash which he thought he would not ever be able to get. Surpisingly most people in Rome do not speak English very well. So after being laughed at by the first bank, and told off for going through the teleporter device together, it was the next bank where he was finally able to cash his cheques.

Later Regner deceided to abandon me in the major Train station by spending over 30 minutes in a 70c toilet facility. My God. I had thoughts rushing through my head after 20 minutes as every other user turned out after like 2 minutes. Had he overdosed? Was this all too much? The heat. I had no idea. I went into the shop to get some change for the toilet and then he appears, just after the Poliza pass me. Apparently as Regner had expensed 70c he had to make sure he didn’t need to use it again anytime soon.

He then bought a 330ml can of Coke for €2.50. Honestly.

The hostel is okay. It’s close to the train station and bus stops. The people are cool, just lots of Americans who like to sleep from 10pm. We have 6 other people in our dorm - a pregnant Argentinian and her friend, Gillian and her friend from Utah and two other Americans - one called Andy who has a smelly towel next to my bed.

Tomorrow George Bush is supposedly visiting Rome so everything will be shut and we will not be allowed out of our dorm. No wonder so many Europeans hate him. The Pope is also supposed to give a blessing at midday so we should be there before 9am according to another American. Hmmm… maybe.

We have a gazillion photos already. The laptop broke alread so just give us some time to upload and you’ll be able to share our extraordinary experiences to some extent.

Florence should be next on Sunday. That is all for now.

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When in Rome…

… we didn’t do what the Roman’s do. At all. Instead we took a €16 flooded audio tour bus which took us around the city - to all the Must sees. I would like to say 80% were not Romans and the rest who were, were just trying to con us into uncomfortable territory. Like I don’t want to pay for 2 ketchups being lead into thinking they’re complimentary and automatically have a Large Big Mac meal. They don’t say. They just assume. I wonder what the real Romans do. Maybe they move out of Rome ever since Ryanair starting flying in with £30 tickets. You can’t blame them. But neither can you blame us - it is an amazing city. Every thing is huge, impressive and glorious.

With the aid of our tour bus, today we visited the Colliseum, the Pantheon, the Vatican, the Forums, some Plazas and some nice streets which had some churches. And some McDonald’s. We dipped into the local cuisine - Pizza. It was very nice :] It’s a bit funny, the pizza here is all like square. Yup.

This morning we went to several banks to get Regner some cash which he thought he would not ever be able to get. Surpisingly most people in Rome do not speak English very well. So after being laughed at by the first bank, and told off for going through the teleporter device together, it was the next bank where he was finally able to cash his cheques.

Later Regner deceided to abandon me in the major Train station by spending over 30 minutes in a 70c toilet facility. My God. I had thoughts rushing through my head after 20 minutes as every other user turned out after like 2 minutes. Had he overdosed? Was this all too much? The heat. I had no idea. I went into the shop to get some change for the toilet and then he appears, just after the Poliza pass me. Apparently as Regner had expensed 70c he had to make sure he didn’t need to use it again anytime soon.

He then bought a 330ml can of Coke for €2.50. Honestly.

The hostel is okay. It’s close to the train station and bus stops. The people are cool, just lots of Americans who like to sleep from 10pm. We have 6 other people in our dorm - a pregnant Argentinian and her friend, Gillian and her friend from Utah and two other Americans - one called Andy who has a smelly towel next to my bed.

Tomorrow George Bush is supposedly visiting Rome so everything will be shut and we will not be allowed out of our dorm. No wonder so many Europeans hate him. The Pope is also supposed to give a blessing at midday so we should be there before 9am according to another American. Hmmm… maybe.

We have a gazillion photos already. The laptop broke alread so just give us some time to upload and you’ll be able to share our extraordinary experiences to some extent.

Florence should be next on Sunday. That is all for now.

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