Day 0: Rome

I landed in Rome this morning around 7:30 am and it took some time to get out of the airport as we had to be bused across the tarmac to a passport check point! I don't know about anyone else, but I am always so grateful and relieved to see my bag on the luggage conveyor belt. I took the bus from the airport to the Vatican (€9) and made my way straight to my accommodation. I waited for my room to be ready and around midday sorted myself out and had a very welcome shower. The accommodation is directly across from the imposing Vatican walls, I'm loving it. After I'd finally sorted my backpack out, I set out exploring. Im afraid to say the weather itself wasn't all that welcoming, it has rained on and off all day - at one point, it hailed! This put a bit of a dampener on my plans as I restricted myself to a circut of the Vatican perimeter. I popped into the pilgrim office outside Saint Peter's Square and the Vatican pilgrim counter to get some stamps for my credentials. I ended my day with my first, of many more to come, Aperol Spitz's, some buffalo mozzarella and scampi risotto.Read more