Yesterday we arrived in Rome. We managed to get to the hotel and fell a sleep. So now we have 3 days in Rome and we will try to see it all. Rome is very different from Tokyo. While Tokyo is modern and urban, Rome is old and antic. The Japanese people is very private and its hard to get to know them. While in Italy it don´t take long before someone talk to you. In Tokyo you eat suhi, in Rome you eat pizza. So a little bit of everything!
The first day we are just starting with a walk. We manage to find Colosseum and since we are so lucky to be in Rome under the cultural week, of everything, so we got in to Colosseum for FREE! Yey, thats perfect for two poor students stuck in Rome. So that mean that we would get in for free in a lot of cultural places. But first Colosseum. Its huge! And beautiful and magnificent. Its amazing that they cud build something that big for that long time ago, and it still stands! Can we say the same about the houses we are building these days? I don´t think so.
After you have seen the Colosseum you go across the road past the Arch of Constantine to Forum. Forum is the old city center. Here they have dug out old beautiful buildings, you can almost see how the old city looked like before. Its nice just to walk around take it easy, just admire the view.
After that the trip went to Fontana di Trevi. A gorgeous fountain that is also the most know one in Rome. The legend say that if you trow a coin in the fountain you will come back to Rome again. For my part it have worked so far. For almost 3 years ago I was in Rome with my dad and we threw a coin in the Fontana di Trevi. Three year later Im back! So maybe I will get a chance one more time to get back to beautiful Rome in the future, Dave too.
Next was Piazza di Spagna, the Spanish stairs. It is really crowded as every other place in Rome, and really beautiful. Young and old people were siting on the stair, bathing in the sun. It really pop out from everything around, because its so white. It was really warm that day, so we didn´t manage to stay there too long and kept on going.
“It got it´s name because it´s next to the Spanish embassy” Dave Brett
We also went and took a look at St. Peters Basilica, but we will visit that tomorrow. For dinner we found Rome´s Hard Rock Cafe. Its become a tradition, we have to visit every Hard Rock Cafe in the city we are in. Its really interesting to see what is different and how the food is. After that we walked tired back to out awesome hotel, ready for a good night sleep.
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