Day 18
We left Sulmona early and took a bus to Rome. It didn’t take very long to get to Rome, probably about 2 hours. The
streets in Rome were very narrow, and cars were parked everywhere. The bus
couldn’t fit without blocking the entire street, so we had to get out down the
street from our hotel and drag all of our luggage all the way to the hotel from
where the bus stopped. We were all pretty annoyed. I was really struggling with
my luggage, and it kept falling and the people passing by would just watch me
and not offer to help. I feel this wouldn't have been the case in Canada. The streets were very uneven and had lots of holes in the bricks which made it even more difficult.
We got to our hotel and had to drag our luggage up 2 sets of stairs. Then we
found out we couldn’t check into our rooms until 2:30, so we had a few hours to
kill. We left all of our luggage in a locked up room, and Kylee, Shannon,
Justin and I all knew we wanted to go to the Colosseum since we had so much
time. We were joined by three others, luckily one girl was really great with directions. On the way we stopped at a little ‘fast food’
store and we got sandwiches and I got a pizza that they wrapped up to look like
a sandwich and we ate it on the way to the Colosseum.
We got there and took some pictures in the front, there was a long line, but we decided it was worth the wait. To our surprise the line went by really quick, probably 10 minutes and we bought our ticket and went in. It was beautiful! It wasn’t the nicest day, which was good because there was a breeze.
We took lots of pictures and ended up happy that we didn’t get a tour guide as it would have been pointless.
We didn’t stay too long because we saw everything and walked up to a higher level. Once we were done we went back to the hotel and were quite disgusted. The room was hot, luckily we had air conditioning and turned it on. The bathroom smelled horrible and reeked of sulfur. The air conditioner looked like it had never been cleaned. The wall where Shannon slept had black all over it and the wallpaper was peeling, and there was mold on the wall near the window. We later found out that another room where girls on our trip stayed had bugs in their beds. Shannon, Kylee and I met back with Justin and we walked around and tried to do some shopping before we had to meet back again for dinner at 7:30. Rome was really dirty, with lots of garbage on the streets, it smelled like pig manure. There were so many men trying to sell everyone junk (scarves, cell phone cases, etc.) and were obnoxious and would get in your face and say rude comments to try and get you to buy their stuff. I genuinely felt unsafe in Rome. We didn’t find many good stores, and came back to change for dinner. We all met in the lobby and left the hotel for dinner. No one could find the She had no idea where she was going and it took us a long time to get to the restaurant even though it was only a few blocks away from the hotel. The first course was lasagna, then there was a gross looking chicken dish with a weird sauce that I passed on.
We walked back to the hotel as a big group and went in a few souvenir stores. A small group of us walked to the Trevi fountain after dinner to get pictures at night time. I am glad we did because we got some nice pictures! So far, I was not the biggest fan of Rome.
We got there and took some pictures in the front, there was a long line, but we decided it was worth the wait. To our surprise the line went by really quick, probably 10 minutes and we bought our ticket and went in. It was beautiful! It wasn’t the nicest day, which was good because there was a breeze.
We took lots of pictures and ended up happy that we didn’t get a tour guide as it would have been pointless.
We didn’t stay too long because we saw everything and walked up to a higher level. Once we were done we went back to the hotel and were quite disgusted. The room was hot, luckily we had air conditioning and turned it on. The bathroom smelled horrible and reeked of sulfur. The air conditioner looked like it had never been cleaned. The wall where Shannon slept had black all over it and the wallpaper was peeling, and there was mold on the wall near the window. We later found out that another room where girls on our trip stayed had bugs in their beds. Shannon, Kylee and I met back with Justin and we walked around and tried to do some shopping before we had to meet back again for dinner at 7:30. Rome was really dirty, with lots of garbage on the streets, it smelled like pig manure. There were so many men trying to sell everyone junk (scarves, cell phone cases, etc.) and were obnoxious and would get in your face and say rude comments to try and get you to buy their stuff. I genuinely felt unsafe in Rome. We didn’t find many good stores, and came back to change for dinner. We all met in the lobby and left the hotel for dinner. No one could find the She had no idea where she was going and it took us a long time to get to the restaurant even though it was only a few blocks away from the hotel. The first course was lasagna, then there was a gross looking chicken dish with a weird sauce that I passed on.
We walked back to the hotel as a big group and went in a few souvenir stores. A small group of us walked to the Trevi fountain after dinner to get pictures at night time. I am glad we did because we got some nice pictures! So far, I was not the biggest fan of Rome.
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