Rome Day 3

Hey everyone! Today was a pretty relaxed day. We had to check out of the Yellow by 10am so we got up around 9:30 repacked our bags, and headed downstairs to the bar area. We were on wifi for awhile in the bar, and left around 11am. We took the subway over near the Spanish Steps and walked around all the high end shopping stores. They had pretty much every high end brand I have ever heard of on one street and I’m sure you could spend a few thousand Euros no sweat on this street. We grabbed lunch at a restaurant not too far from the Trinity Fountain, and headed back to the Yellow to get our bags, which we had stored for the afternoon. It was only about 2pm, but took a taxi out to our hotel on the outskirts of Rome which is close to the airport for our 6:40am flight tomorrow. We had seen most of the sights we wanted to, all except St. Peters Basilica where there was a super long line (the other guys didn’t want to go back and see it). So we took a 30-40 minute taxi towards the outside of the city which ended up being 67 Euro but we had previously asked if 50 Euro trip was good and the cab driver agreed. So today turned out to be a setup day for the next few days, most of the guys were tired from the activities from last night (1 got sick, and the other 3 got back at 4am) so we ended up not really doing anything. We got here to our hotel and our room is bigger than any of our other rooms, I’m assuming that’s because this is a hotel and not a hostel and the rate is 180 Euro a night. But it makes sense, because we have to wake up at 4:15 for our 6:40am flight. Our room is also for only 4 people so we have to sneak in the room in small groups since we have 5 people. I found out that if the keycard is not in its slot in the wall, all of our power doesn’t work; so that’s interesting. And sense some of the guys are out getting dinner, we have no power.

But I’m really looking forward to Athens tomorrow and getting back into sightseeing probably for the last big day of it. We have Athens tomorrow, then spending two days in San Torini (a Greek island) for two days, and then to Strasbourg to start my 5 week program at with A&M. These past 11 days have been really good and I enjoy all the sightseeing. It definitely takes a toll on the body though and days like today are good to separate all the travel and stress (if you can call it that) of fitting all the sites into the amount of time you have. I think we’ve done a pretty nice job of seeing all the sites at each city, and we haven’t really missed anything I wanted to see. I believe we get into Athens tomorrow around 9:30 so it should be a full day. I’m going to bed shortly and will update everyone once I get wifi again.

Jonathan