Roam Around the World

Oh we English majors love our homophones, don't we :)

Well this weekend it was off to bella Roma for our lovely pack of weirdos. So, the adventures of Cartographer Barbie (Mary-Jo), Baby Barbie (Jacqui), Tour Guide Barbie - Auzzie Edition (Caitlin), and Tour Guide Barbie 2.0 (me) commence!

 We landed fairly late on Friday night and after hours of traveling were content to have a quick dinner and crash. We hit the pavement pretty hard on Saturday. 

First stop was of course the Vatican. Luckily, it was a straight shot on the metro and we didn't have to walk the 5k, as we would do plenty of walking later in the day. 

After wandering the Vatican, we had what was probably the most expensive lunch of our lives. We thought we'd be safe on prices by not actually eating in the Vatican cafe, but it seems the places surrounding it charge even more. We learned our lesson on that one and remembered to look for a sitting fee everywhere after. Then, we literally walked around an entire country. Yup, we walked around the entire Vatican and ended up in St. Peter's Square. 

After a quick break back at the hostel, we headed out to find the Piazza della Repubblica. Of course, we wouldn't be us if we didn't do some accidental wandering on the way! But we eventually found it - and it happened to not be far from our Hostel at all.

Then we headed onto the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps - both of which were absolutely mobbed - so we made our way back to them Monday morning. 

 

 

After giving ourselves a tiny bit of extra sleep, we were at it again for Sunday. We visited the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, and the Piazza Novona. 

                                  

We ran into the Maria Maggiore and the Musei Capitolini on our way as well. Needless to say, after a day that busy, we were all ready to crash. 

We were all exhausted by Monday (to say the least!). So we decided to take it easy and go back and see the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain during the day! Then it was a leisurely lunch and off to the airport! Of course, traveling back was no fun. We didn't get back to UL until 4am. All delirious with exhaustion, we had never been happier to hit our beds! We're so glad we went to Rome, but again, we were so happy to get back to Limerick where we could all have our own showers and our big beds!

All in all it was a great trip!  We were only really followed by boys once, and no one was pinched (which is more than I can say for the last time I was there). 

Off to Paris in a few short days! Don't know how I'm gonna hold up here! Hope all goes well!

With love, from Ireland!

Biff