On Thursday evening Alex and I caught a bus to Padova and then a train to Rome. On the train we met an older Italian man who owns a small private international law firm in Rome. He travels regularly to Brazil and the other BRIC countries. He was very pleasant and interested in what brought us to Italy. He lives near the Pantheon in Rome, which is a really nice area. I was impressed. We arrived in Rome after 2300, our hostel was about 2 blocks from the train station. The area around the train station isn't the greatest, it's not dangerous per se but a little sketchy at 11pm. We were on the street of the hostel and some lady came up to us saying "Joy Chung Joy Chung" I was pretty freaked out, but it turns out it was the lady who runs the B&B we were staying at. We were pretty late in getting there so she was headed to the train station to meet us. She was fantastic and the B&B was awesome. Hot water, beautiful room, filling breakfast included in the price, and it was all very inexspensive. It was much nicer than the place we stayed at in Rome the last time we were here, that place was a little bit creepy.
Since we had already been in Rome we didn't feel like we had to run all over the place to see everything which made the trip awesome and we still ended up seeing a lot of sights. We saw St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican. We walked around the Colosseum area. We saw Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and the Spanish Steps at night which was better than in the day. the weather was perfect the entire time we were there, 50 and sunny! I had Gelatto three times and I still want more. We were reluctant to leave.
We took a train back to Venice Saturday night. We ate at a little pizzeria which was not at all touristy and deliscious. We were probably the only non-Italians in the place, but it was packed and the food was cheap and good, nothing better ;) The Italians next to us asked us about ourselves and how we ended up in Italy and what we thought about our travels.
The pictures are of me and Alex at St. Peter's Basilica, at the top of the Spanish steps, and a picture of the Palantine
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