We've been here for three days already,and have been doing what all good Romans should do-- drink lots of wine, have lots of fun, see lots of old buildings (including the Colusseum, Forum, Spanish Steps, Fontana di Trevi, Piazza Navona, Basilica San Pietro, Pantheon, etc etc lots of other old buildings and fountains!)
Today we even met the POPE!!!!!!!!! Ok, so slight exaggeration, we went to St Peters Square as he had a public appearance at midday! So we got to see our mate Bene XVI :P We also got to eat delicious sandwiches, so delicious we believe they were blessed by God :P
We are staying in M&J Hostel, right near the Termini (Hauptbahnhof) which is awesome, about 10 minutes from the middle of town, yusssssss! We met these Brazilian boys who were staying in our room (three, coincidentally!) Their names are Marcio, Daniel and Giovanni (not so Brazilian...?) AND! They're going to be in Paris for Christmas too! (coincidentally!!) So we're hopefully going to catch up with them there! Crazeeeeeee!
And thus, in two days we're going to Paris, seeing Robert and the beautiful Louvre and Eifle Tower and to eat snails and frogs and wear berés and stuff like that, haha!
By the way, we left Salzburg in the SNOOOOWWWWWWWWWW! It was beautiful but so cold!! We slept overnight on the 12 hour train ride, and had this great conversation in Italian/German with the old fat couple in our compartment :P Kylea and I are doing ok with the "Deutsch lernen" actually!! And we spent most of the first day in Roma speaking German, haha.... so cool!! And Rome hasn't even been cold, except a little at night... So fingers crossed cos i'm going to try and swim when we go to Cinque Terre on the 2nd of Jan!! Hahaha....
OHH!! TWO SMALL WORLD MOMENTS!! The girl at reception here- Rose- is a Kiwi!! She lived in New Plymouth, and Anna's Mom taught her Math in 4th Form! The second, not so cool one is the fact that Davina, a girl from Canada who was here with us for two nights, goes to Alicante University, like Natalia Garcia (our friend from Erasmus...) The third ive already mentioned (how the Brazilian Boys are gonna be in Paris the same time as us!)
Anyway, back to life as a busy Roman, just thought i'd update you on the joys of life in this fine city!
PS The toilet here STINKS thanks to this freaky Indian guy who we think lives in this cupboard (no, seriously!) and the restaurant/bar below us has the coolest old guy with three teeth who makes amazing Panini!! Yussssssssss
PPS Coffee here is fantastic and Anna and I are so super happy, words cant describe.
PPPS Words from Bene-- God Bless, and Kylea, she is cool?
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