Italy 2016

abril - maio 2016

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Michelle Rowe Italy 2016
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- 5 de abr. de 2016 15:35
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 49 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Castro Pretorio 41.90988, 12.5144241°54’36” N 12°30’52” E
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ROMA April 5-9
5 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
So after 2 days of traveling i have officially arrived in Roma! It's about 2.45pm and i am currently in my apartment recovering from my first Italian food coma after eating meatball pizza.
The weather in Rome is just not. Not too hot, not too cold. I can get around fine in a tshirt, jeans and sandals.

I spent 8 hours in Singapore airport walking back and forth through its 3 massive terminals. But luckily i got the row to myself on my flight to Roma so i got a decent sleep.

I spent about an hour getting lost in the streets surrounding my place but was able to eventually find a pizza place that wasnt too crowded and had someone who spoke English.
I haven't worked up the courage to order in Italian because all of the food places dont have names on the food that's in front of you.

Luckily for me Breakfast is supplied and there is a corner store across the road for snacks.

Well that's all for day 1.
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Michelle Rowe This is a koi pond in Singapore Airport
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Michelle Rowe Sunflower garden
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Michelle Rowe Butterfly garden, unfortunately was there at night time when they were all hidden
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- 6 de abr. de 2016 10:00
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 38 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Colonna Spanish Steps 41.90642, 12.4827141°54’23” N 12°28’58” E
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Rome, Italy
6 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Day 2 Roma Part 1.
This morning i started my day at the Spanish steps. The whole quarteris very lovely.
Here i had my first Italian Lunch. I had fettuccine Bolognese. The taste of the sauce was very different. Even though it just looked like a tomato sauce it was full of flavour.
Luckily for me this quarter is very touristy so the waiters spoke english and the menu was in english. But it was a bit like Lygon street in Melbourne where they stand out the front and try to entice you in.Leia mais
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Michelle Rowe Fettuccine Bolognese
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Michelle Rowe Spanish steps
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Amanda: try a puttanesca, its a must. Simple but delicous. My fav meal i had in italy.... and pizza
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- 6 de abr. de 2016 12:00
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 48 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Colonna Villa Borghese 41.91257, 12.4849541°54’45” N 12°29’6” E
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Rome, Italy
6 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Day 2 Roma Part 2

After the steps i went to Villa Borghese. It's a bit like a botanical garden but more like a massive park. It has many museums and even a zoo. Most of the time i was on a bike riding around so i didnt take many photos here.Leia mais
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Michelle Rowe Villa Borghese museum
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I remember this, was really cool . You should hire a boat and row over. Wish me and fahey did at the time :)
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- 6 de abr. de 2016 14:00
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 41 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Centro Storico Piazza del Campidoglio 41.89342, 12.4827241°53’36” N 12°28’58” E
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Rome, Italy
6 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Day 2 Roma Part 3
My last stop was The Capitoline Museums. My host has told me this is the 2nd best museum behind the Vatican. If shes right, the vatican must be the best in the world. This museum was fantastic. Rooms and rooms of ceiling to floor paintings and Full body sculptures.
Also i had an English Audio to tell me the significance of all the pieces.
It stretched over 3 buildings.

Here i always went into a church which blew my mind. It's amazing that regular people go to churches that look fit for a king.

In my travels i had to pass the colosseum and the roman forum but ill talk about them when I'm on my contiki tour.

It's pretty easy to get around the city. Everything is easy to walk to.Leia mais
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Debbie Rowe Yeah see what you mean amazing
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- 6 de abr. de 2016 15:00
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 41 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Centro Storico Piazza del Campidoglio 41.89335, 12.4828141°53’36” N 12°28’58” E
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Rome, Italy
6 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Day 2 Roma Part 3 cont.
Michelle Rowe The church in Capitoline Hill
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- 7 de abr. de 2016 10:00
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 24 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Campo Marzio Piazza del Popolo 41.9107, 12.4763341°54’39” N 12°28’35” E
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Rome, Italy
7 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Day 3 Roma Part 1

Today i visited churches and Piazza Venezia.
In all of the churches you had to cover up and taking photos was a bit rude but most people took a few.
All churches had army guards out the front. I mean proper guards with guns and camo.
Ive come to conclusion if you melted down all the gold that is in Roman churches and sold it, you could fix greeces economic crisis. Maybe even the whole of europe would be out of debt. But Priorities right. You have to praise jesus in style.

The first churches were in Piazza del Popolo. They are Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli.
After that i went to Santa Maria Minerva. It had this cool elephant out the front.

From here i went to Piazza Venezia. It has this giant majestic building/monument called II Vittoriano. It was sparkingly white and i was able to take a lift to the top for a great view of Rome.Leia mais
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Michelle Rowe Egyptian obelisk of Ramesses II
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Michelle Rowe Santa Maria in Montesanto
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Michelle Rowe Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
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- 7 de abr. de 2016 14:00
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 61 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Monti Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 41.89762, 12.4983241°53’51” N 12°29’54” E
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Rome, Italy
7 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Day 3 Roma Part 2
My next church was Basilica di santa maria massgiore.

After that Basilica of San Clemnte and San Giovanni.
San Giovanni was my favourite because it had these giant sculptures of saints.

Pretty easy day today. Though i must say i saw so many churches they are all just mixed into 1 big gallery in my head.

It was pretty amazing how they were all decorated so spectacularly.
In many of them they had these side rooms that were dedicated to saints or special people. Normally all painted by 1 person, but you had to donate to the offering for the lights in the section to turn on. You could still see without this but they didnt have much natural light.Leia mais
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Michelle Rowe Pope Pius IX
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- 8 de abr. de 2016 09:00
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 38 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Ardeatino Catacombe di San Sebastiano 41.85583, 12.5158541°51’21” N 12°30’57” E
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Day 4 Roma
8 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Today i walked the old anicent road The Appian Way. It was a very long walk. I did about 10kms.

Here i visited a catacomb of San Sebastian.
They don't keep any of the bodies in the parts of the catacomb that you get to see.
I also saw Roman mausoleums. They were much more beautiful then the catacombs. The difference was Romans did not believe anything happened to your body after you died so they were all cremated and put into urns inside mausoleums.

The road was classic Roman black pebble. There was very expensive mansions along the way.
I was joined by a herd of goats at one point.
I had walked further then most tourists as i got to a point where i didnt see anyone for about 20 minutes.

I walked all the way to the old Aqueducts.Leia mais
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Phil Rowe Maybe the rich people keep goats ? Looks like you are keeping fit. Geelong play Brisbane today (Sunday), I'll send the score tomorrow. Ciao Dad
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- 9 de abr. de 2016 23:00
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Pigna Trevi Fountain 41.90106, 12.4833141°54’4” N 12°28’60” E
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Rome, Italy
9 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Day 5 Roma
Finally met up with my Contiki tour group. We started off by seeing the Trevi Fountain, i threw in a coin and made a wish and the Pantheon. For dinner we had a pizza demonstration.

The Trevi Fountain is like a massive building with fountain features. We went at night and the lights made it look very beautiful.Leia mais
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- 10 de abr. de 2016 15:00
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 36 m
- Itália Lazio Roma Capitale Campitelli Colosseum 41.89034, 12.4922341°53’25” N 12°29’32” E
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10 de abril de 2016, Itália ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Day 6 Roma
Today we went to the colosseum and the Roman forum.
It was amazing. It is giant.
The history of the colosseum is very interesting.

The roman forum was very cool too. The tour guide gave a good description of how the area worked when it was first built. Now its not so much to look at.
But here i saw where Caesar was cremated. He was assassinated further down the road.

For dinner we went to pasta making lessons. We made 3 different pastas then ate them.
Ive started to like the pastas without meat more then i thought i would.Leia mais
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