Day 17: Sunday
I got so much sleep, it was amazing. Some man wandered into our room and started making noise at about 8am, and I drifted in and out of sleep from then until 10am when we decided to get up. We realized it was raining outside, but that didn’t stop us. We left our stuff at the hostel and made our way toward the first castle. We stopped at a shopping gallery and a piazza with a really cool church (Galleria Umberto and Piazza Plebiscito). We got to go inside for a brief moment before they kicked us out because service was about to start. Then we stopped to eat and I got a cheese pizza, which was better than the corn and ham one. It was still raining when we finished so we decided to order desert. This was a good choice. I got warm little doughnuts with sugar and nutella on it, Elli got white pudding/cheesecake stuff with strawberries (which was the best in my opinion), Dylan got a coffee thing called a BeBe, Joe got the same as me, and Brandon got a chocolate cake-type thing with ice cream and whipped cream and topping sauce. After our delicious desert, out waiter strangely made us tip him, which never happens in Europe, so he probably ripped us off. Oh well, it was only two euro. Then we made our way to the Castel Nuovo despite the rain, but we were disappointed to find it closed when we got there. We walked around the outside and took pictures, and we were right by the water, so we made our way down to the other castle. There was no beach so we walked along the piers that had just rocks where beach would’ve been. We saw some kitties on the way! When we arrived at the other Castle (Castel dell’Ovo) it was also closed, so we made our way back across town to the Duomo. It was strange that we saw little girls everywhere wearing wedding dress-looking dresses and taking pictures. We stopped at a piazza to get Grinita drinks and Dylan chased the pigeons. We had little hopes of the Duomo being open when we got there, and it wasn’t, but we sat outside chilling and deciding what to do next. Then a tour group came up and opened it, so we followed them inside. We couldn’t take pictures, but it was beautiful. We wandered around there for a while, it being the only thing we actually managed to see all day, then headed back to the hostel. We decided to see if there was a train earlier than the one we planned on taking, and there was, so we rushed to the train station and managed to get seats, but not together. The train was super crowded and there were a lot of people standing. I read all of Book 5 of Livy, which was surprisingly actually good and exciting. Finally! The Gauls arrive in Rome and it is very suspenseful. We got off the train and found the bus to Argentina, then got on the tram and finally made it home. It made Rome feel more like home because we were coming back from somewhere else to here, which is familiar. We showered, made dinner (buttered noodles), and I skyped my family and Jordan. Looking forward to sleep before class tomorrow, and it should be a busy last week in Rome trying to see all the rest of the sites. (I'm posting from the weekend so my my last post was actually written earlier, but now I am finally caught up! YAY!)
I got so much sleep, it was amazing. Some man wandered into our room and started making noise at about 8am, and I drifted in and out of sleep from then until 10am when we decided to get up. We realized it was raining outside, but that didn’t stop us. We left our stuff at the hostel and made our way toward the first castle. We stopped at a shopping gallery and a piazza with a really cool church (Galleria Umberto and Piazza Plebiscito). We got to go inside for a brief moment before they kicked us out because service was about to start. Then we stopped to eat and I got a cheese pizza, which was better than the corn and ham one. It was still raining when we finished so we decided to order desert. This was a good choice. I got warm little doughnuts with sugar and nutella on it, Elli got white pudding/cheesecake stuff with strawberries (which was the best in my opinion), Dylan got a coffee thing called a BeBe, Joe got the same as me, and Brandon got a chocolate cake-type thing with ice cream and whipped cream and topping sauce. After our delicious desert, out waiter strangely made us tip him, which never happens in Europe, so he probably ripped us off. Oh well, it was only two euro. Then we made our way to the Castel Nuovo despite the rain, but we were disappointed to find it closed when we got there. We walked around the outside and took pictures, and we were right by the water, so we made our way down to the other castle. There was no beach so we walked along the piers that had just rocks where beach would’ve been. We saw some kitties on the way! When we arrived at the other Castle (Castel dell’Ovo) it was also closed, so we made our way back across town to the Duomo. It was strange that we saw little girls everywhere wearing wedding dress-looking dresses and taking pictures. We stopped at a piazza to get Grinita drinks and Dylan chased the pigeons. We had little hopes of the Duomo being open when we got there, and it wasn’t, but we sat outside chilling and deciding what to do next. Then a tour group came up and opened it, so we followed them inside. We couldn’t take pictures, but it was beautiful. We wandered around there for a while, it being the only thing we actually managed to see all day, then headed back to the hostel. We decided to see if there was a train earlier than the one we planned on taking, and there was, so we rushed to the train station and managed to get seats, but not together. The train was super crowded and there were a lot of people standing. I read all of Book 5 of Livy, which was surprisingly actually good and exciting. Finally! The Gauls arrive in Rome and it is very suspenseful. We got off the train and found the bus to Argentina, then got on the tram and finally made it home. It made Rome feel more like home because we were coming back from somewhere else to here, which is familiar. We showered, made dinner (buttered noodles), and I skyped my family and Jordan. Looking forward to sleep before class tomorrow, and it should be a busy last week in Rome trying to see all the rest of the sites. (I'm posting from the weekend so my my last post was actually written earlier, but now I am finally caught up! YAY!)
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| Castel Nuovo |
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| Piazza Plebiscito |
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| By the harbour with Vesuvius |
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| Il Duomo |
