Rome is truly beautiful! At it really does seem to live up to its name the Eternal City, every few blocks there are old buildings or ruins being excavated from thousands of years ago. It's insane!
We arrived in Rome yesterday afternoon. We had no trouble in Istanbul and no trouble getting to our hostel in Rome. Our hostel is an all female hostel which is really nice, it's much cleaner than any of the other hostels we've stayed at, except for the random really nice first class resort we accidentally stayed at in Samos. Praise for finding our hostel super easily! God has been so good so far, we haven't really had any trouble at all with lodgings or transportation!
Yesterday we hit up the Colosseum right away. It's amazing! To think that they had no modern machinary to build it just astounds me. Also, to think of all the brutality that happened there with gladiator fights, animal fights and persecution of Christians was a good reality check of how blessed I am. We were true Italians last night and stayed out quite late, had gelato and pizza twice! We wandered around the city as much of the tourist places had closed by the time we left the Colosseum. The Fountain of Trevi is beautiful at night, and there are so many people around, it's a great place to just sit and watch everything.
Today we went to the Paletino, Roman Forum, Pantheon, had an amazing Italian lunch followed by gelato of course! Found the Mouth of Truth, or Bocca Della Verita, from Roman Holiday, we got so many mixed directions and after giving up on trying to find it and just going to find a place to eat, we happened to stumble upon it. It was such fun to take a picture with it :) We have done a lot of just wandering around the city and ending up wherever we end up although today we got caught in the rain and refused to spend money on a cheap street vender umbrella and instead bought gelato. Much better use of money :)
Tomorrow we plan on spending the morning at the Vatican and seeing Saint Peter's Basillica and taking the day more leisurely before heading on a train down to Salerno to see Pompeii.
Thanks for all your prayers, emails and Facebook posts. I really love the love!
We arrived in Rome yesterday afternoon. We had no trouble in Istanbul and no trouble getting to our hostel in Rome. Our hostel is an all female hostel which is really nice, it's much cleaner than any of the other hostels we've stayed at, except for the random really nice first class resort we accidentally stayed at in Samos. Praise for finding our hostel super easily! God has been so good so far, we haven't really had any trouble at all with lodgings or transportation!
Yesterday we hit up the Colosseum right away. It's amazing! To think that they had no modern machinary to build it just astounds me. Also, to think of all the brutality that happened there with gladiator fights, animal fights and persecution of Christians was a good reality check of how blessed I am. We were true Italians last night and stayed out quite late, had gelato and pizza twice! We wandered around the city as much of the tourist places had closed by the time we left the Colosseum. The Fountain of Trevi is beautiful at night, and there are so many people around, it's a great place to just sit and watch everything.
Today we went to the Paletino, Roman Forum, Pantheon, had an amazing Italian lunch followed by gelato of course! Found the Mouth of Truth, or Bocca Della Verita, from Roman Holiday, we got so many mixed directions and after giving up on trying to find it and just going to find a place to eat, we happened to stumble upon it. It was such fun to take a picture with it :) We have done a lot of just wandering around the city and ending up wherever we end up although today we got caught in the rain and refused to spend money on a cheap street vender umbrella and instead bought gelato. Much better use of money :)
Tomorrow we plan on spending the morning at the Vatican and seeing Saint Peter's Basillica and taking the day more leisurely before heading on a train down to Salerno to see Pompeii.
Thanks for all your prayers, emails and Facebook posts. I really love the love!
Joanna!
ReplyDeleteYour trip sounds amazing so far! Thanks for sending me your blog link.. I will read it, be jealous, and dream of your distant adventures in far off lands while I sit at this desk staring at the white wall across from me, in less exciting/already explored city of st.paul.
Take LOTS of pictures for me puh-lease! As I read your blog I am already anxious to see the photos of the places you describe.
Be safe, God bless!
-Alison
aka your favorite senate staffer
Thanks Alison! I will try and upload photos soon so you have something other than white walls to look at :)
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