Roma - Day 1 & 2

So we arrived in Roma about 10pm at night on Monday, June 20th, it was hot but not uncomfortable. We took the bus to Termini (main station) from there we walked to our hostel, Hostel Alessandro Downtown. It was a nice place, and as we were checking in, they needed our passports so we haded them over and she said, "Wow, more Canadians" the people that had just checked in were also Canadians, from Fredericton. Instantly, we were friends and in fact we spend the rest of the trip with them, Matt and Jolene were their names. All of us were hungury so we went for a bit to eat, pizza, of course!
When we got up, we had to find another hostel, so all five of us went back to Termini and were able to find a place for all of us, Youth Station. After we went to the hostel to check in and drop our stuff off, we went to the Colosseum, it was awesome!! It was really awesome, I will try to post some pictures later this week. Matt and Jo didn't go in so we were going to meet them at Piazza Navona, a really nice fountain, from there we started a walking tour using Craig's Europe book, we went to the Pantheon next, it was amazing, a circuluar buliding that was bulit around 120 A.D. Next, we went to the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church, on the outside it didn't look like a church but inside it was amazing, the detail on the paintings and the scluptures was really impressive.

After that we went to Trevi Fountain, it was once again really nice, one thing to note is that all over the city they had fountains (both huge as a momument and as small drinking fountain). then we headed to Piazza Barberini, it was funny this is a nice square with a foutain but after seeing Trevi Fountain nothing came even close to the beauty of it, then on to final stop, the Spanish Steps. it was a pretty awesome sight.

After the tour we were all hungury so we went to eat and then back to the hostel. During the day meet had meet some people who were flyering (Rachael), giving out flyers for a pub crawl, so we thought about it and we thought why not it would be a good time to meet new people and I think that it was the best choice. We ended up going and meeting lots of people but the best part was we saw Rachael again, and found out that she also does tours of the Vatican and area so we asked her if she would give us a private tour of the area, she agreed. The pub crawl was very funny because it felt like a pub crawl from home, people drinking all talking English, it was an all around good time.

well I should leave it there for now,

Ciao,

Andrew