Italian Adventure Comes to an End ? Rome, Italy

? Rome, Lazio, Italy
Saturday, May 21, 2011

My last day in Italy started off early with a tour of Ancient Rome. I was so impressed with the sights that we saw including the Colesseum, Ancient Palentine including the Roman Forum, and the Pantheon. The tour was amazing and I couldn't believe I was seeing so much "old stuff" that I had only ever heard about. The tour as exhausting, though. It was a lot to cram into one morning, and I won't complain about the weather because it was awesome, but just warmer than I was anticipating. So the tour definitely wore me out, but since my time in Rome was so limited, I wasn't going to let it slow me down.

I met up with Jen, Donna, and Matt and we walked around some more around Piazza Navona and found a little place to have lunch. I had another amazing caprese salad. Jen and I decided to explore the city some more and started walking around. We walked to Piazza Campo di Fiori, and a market was just closing up so we checked that out a little bit and continued on our way. We walked to this part of Rome called Trastevere and we just LOVED it! There were all these little stores and restaurants. We found a purse store, Carlo Ceccini, where Jen and I both splurged and bought ourselves some nice Italian purses. We even got to meet the designer himself, as he was working in the back of the store. We stopped at a little restaurant and sat outside and had some drinks and then continued walking through this part of town, and eventually making our way back to the hotel.

At the hotel, we packed up for our return to the States. Jen and I were both getting sad that our trip was coming to an end. We decided that for our last night in Italy, we wanted to go back over to Trastevere (we REALLY loved that part of town). So we got ready and went back over there. The scene at night was completely different than it was during the day! It was so crowded! Just tons of people and all the restuarants had tables outside that were full. It was a very vivacious scene. We walked around for a long while trying to decide which restaurtant to have our last meal at, and we ended up at the "Orange" one. Coincidentally, as we were waiting for our table, a big group of people from our tour group left the restaurant - they had just eaten there, too. We got a nice table outside and enjoyed our final meal in Italy. We had some bruschetta and I ordered ravioli. I am pretty sure I had my last tiramasu there, too. After dinner we were really sad and went back to the hotel.

I had a really early flight the next morning from Rome to Madrid and then Madrid to Chicago. Since I wasn't traveling with the group, I had arranged for a car to pick me up early the next day. Unfortunately, I didn't even have a chance to say good bye to Bob McGee or many others from the group. However, I can say that this trip to Italy was amazing and far exceeded my expectations for the trip. I thought it was the perfect way to experience a new country for the first time. I got to see so many things and go so many places. I also have ideas in my head of where I would like to go back to next time I am in Italy. I can't say enough good things about the trip and cannot wait for the next opportunity I have to travel with Bobby McGee (hopefully Greece in 2013!!)

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