seriously - la dolce vita :)
ROME. i left the house bright and early on friday morning (4:45am - so it was still dark outside) to get to the airport. my first moments in italy were quite stressful - buying a train ticket, trying to validate my ticket, and finding the right train involved a lot of struggles but about two hours after i landed, i made it to the all-female hostel (run by nuns)! trust me - any mishaps and difficulties i came across were fully worth it because i. loved. italy. almost every minute of it. anyhow, i did a lot of exploring on my own before meeting up with julie near the spanish steps. the weather was beautiful and after honing in my map-reading skills in krakow... i was ready! i managed to see the monument to vittorio emanuele ii and the roman forum, walked around the colosseum, bought a pair of kickass leopard-print sunglasses, and threw some coins into trevi fountain before meeting julie.
gelato was a theme throughout my three-city italian spree. apparently there is no word for "gelato" in czech... we have to call it zmrzlina (ice cream). gelato is in its own category altogether, i'd say.
after meeting julie in front of the spanish steps, we walked to the top, sat in a park, went to piazza del popolo (where i got to sit on one of the lion statues), and piazza navona before going back to trevi fountain to meet some of her friends for dinner. julie goes to notre dame (read: lots of catholics) and a number of her friends abroad in europe this semester came to rome for holy weekend. we had some DELISH pasta (another theme).. then while her catholic friends went to stations of the cross, we walked around the colosseum with our john paul ii flags (not sure what the flags were for but it was a polish flag with his name - maybe it's advertisement since he's up for sainthood?) and walked along the river back to our hostel.
coming soon (hopefully tomorrow): rome, part ii. among other important updates. stay tuned!
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