Return to Italy - Rome, Naples, and Sorrento Part 1

Hello everyone, welcome to another one of my travels. This time we are visiting Italy again, but we going to the City of Rome so lets begin. Also this post will be in two parts as this trip was over a week long, so I thought I would spilt it up.

On the 14th November, we arrived in Rome in the afternoon after a two hour flight on a Ryanair plane from Stansted airport. We then caught a bus to the centre of the city, which we had to queue up for cause a lot of the buses that day were on strike apparently. Once we got to the city, we had to walk to our apartment which was through a park. This park had lovely little green parakeets flying around it, like the ones you see in London.

Parakeet in Rome

Once we had walked through the park we got to the other end, you could see a nice view of the city and down below was the Piazza Del Popolo

The place we was staying for 2 nights was just down from here near a tram line, It was an apartment called, Rome Studios Apartments. It was very nice, we didn't get breakfast and had a shared bathroom, but the room overall was great, including a comfy bed, which is always good.

Later that evening we went back into the city to have some dinner. Can you guess what we had?

Yes pizza of course! It is Italy. We also had mojito cocktails, the food was all very nice.

Pizza for dinner

With Mojito cocktails.

After dinner we found the Spanish steps wondering about, they are a very nice structure. Below is a few more photos of around the city.

On Saturday the next day, we went to visit Trevi Fountain, which we thought was going to be pretty amazing to see but unfortunately it wasn't very great to view as it was covered in scaffolding.

Saw people dressed up as Romans, they would let you take a photo with them, but they wanted money afterwards so if you don't want to go giving your money away, I'd stay away. We did have one guy come up to us by the Piazza Del Popolo. He wasn't dressed as a Roman but he was giving people roses, he would tell you information about the area and then he wanted money for the roses, so again beware if you don't give your money out!

We also found a cool toy store, I love looking in toy stores at all the different things, one thing I'm interested in is Lego and this store had loads of it so I was really excited.

The store window.

The store front. Cool huh!

I bought a mini fig which was a little bit cheaper than in the UK. We then went on to find the Roman Forum. The area around there was really amazing. One building was huge, this was the Piazza Venezia which is just before you go around the corner to the Roman Forum and Colosseum. It was such a spectacular looking building all white with pillars, had horse statues on top of it. 

The Piazza Venezia

Round the corner from here was the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, there was also lots and lots of men trying to sell you stuff like selfie sticks and umbrella's. I managed to get myself one at a bargain price of 5 euros instead of the price they was trying to sell them for 15 euros, haggle with them, they will give in.

The Roman Forum you have to pay to get into, you can buy tickets online which I think is the ticket to the Colosseum plus you get entry to the forum too. It costs around £10.00.

Being in the Forum is strange you have to imagination what is was like all them years ago it's rather hard. There is books you can buy that have before and now images of the ruins which come in very helpful.

Even cats visit the Forum,

After walking about the forum we came out and went walked around the outside of the Colosseum, we didn't go inside till the next day cause it was getting late. Such a big ruin, amazing thing to see.

Arch of Constantine

The things that must have gone on in that Colosseum must have been mind blowing.

The last thing we went to visit that day was the Pantheon.

This building was another spectacular sight, sadly we didn't get to go inside as there was a service going on. So we didn't get to the see the hole in the ceiling. It did start to rain, lucky we went into a restaurant for dinner.

Here is a few more sights round the city

These fountains were really beautiful.

 The next day we went back to the Colosseum, but this time we thought we would try out the metro. It's a bit different from the London Underground, I would say it looks brighter, less crowded as well.

The Colosseum is huge and simply amazing. It's a great place to visit and will be a excellent experience. I for one was amazed by it and if you are visiting Rome it's the one place you must go and see. You can spend a good hour or so in there looking around, it was very busy and this was in November, so I dread to think what it would be like in Summer time. So if you do want to avoid all the crowds, winter time would be better. There was a small queue to get in, another thing which is better to do is buy your tickets online, otherwise you will be waiting in a huge queue to get in.

Once inside you can walk all around the bottom, and then there is stairs to go up to the top. You can get some stunning photos in there, as you can see below.

In black and white.

That was all we had time to do in Rome, after that we travelled down to Naples on train, then switched trains to Lucrino, where we were staying in this beautiful hotel called Villa Luisa. But there will be more about that in the next post. This is the end of part 1, hope you enjoy this helpful and enjoyable to read. Go to Part 2 <---

Thanks Aimee