New Year plans

[fluffymark]

Hooray! *bouncebouncebounce*

I'm going to Italy for a week and a half over new year. Yay!!!!! :)


Wow. Why haven't I done this earlier? Its so cheap to get there, and yet its somewhere I've always wanted to go. True, I've been to Italy before, but that was Naples (lots of scooters) and the Amalfi coast (pretty, but rural), plus it was a school trip which gave me no freedom. Now I'll get to see the delights of Rome. Too many treasures there to name. Roman ruins all over the place. Renaissance art. Architecture to die for. And also, the yummiest Pizza, Pasta and Ice-cream anywhere. And I'm hoping to spend time in Venice too, which should be just as pretty, and has canals too! Yay!

Any comments on fab places for me to visit there will be muchly appreciated! :)

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Venice ::swoons:: I love the place.. be sure and take a gondola ride (we skipped that one and I've regretted it ever since) and of course be sure and bring back some of that gorgeous Marino glass... check out the churches even if you're not religious, fabulous architecture inside, particularly some of the smaller chapels... oh and I hope you've good night vision because Venice after dark in small side streets is not well-lit lol

[incy.livejournal.com]

I really want to go Venice (actually I would not mind going to Rome either). But yay for going to European cities for New Years (I had a lot of fun in Madrid last year).

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

*swoon* Rome is amazing. Go to Rome. It's my most favourite place ever.

What we did on our first day there, which turned out to be good, was to look for the elephant. Or more precisely the elefantino - a sculpture by Bernini, of an elephant, with an obelisk on its back. It's pretty cool but the best bit is going through lots of other cool places on the way there. Going to the vatican is a bit of a lark because you get to see hundreds of nuns. We even saw some purple ones. There's also the bellybutton of the world (sadly inspection didn't turn up any fluff therein). And the cats. Mmmmmmm. The cats in the Torre Argentina, which is a section of ruins (ISTR it was where Julius Caesar was killed) which is set aside *just* for cats to live in. The cats everywhere else. The hundreds of crazy cat ladies.
Ooops. I think I'm getting carried away. :)

*sigh* *feels romesick*

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Very very jealous as I would love to see Rome and Venice as I have never been. And I shall ahve to manage without you for New Year - How WILL I cope? No really have fun and send me a postcard!!!

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Eee! Sounds fantastic.

Hope you have a lovely time.

Nick's been to Rome and Venice doing choir things so should have some recommendations of places to go there, so I'll ask him to suggest some things for you when he gets home!

Aren't you a travelling princess lately! Good for you. :-)

*hugs*

Elly

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Rome is great. Two tips immediately spring to mind: don't get ripped off by the street pizza vendors - I asked them for a small slice, and they gave me a big one (much pricier). I put it down to my poor Italian until I found out that at least two of the other people on our tour had the same experience. Secondly, the Colosseum is amazing - when we went there were people offering free tours as a taster for some other tours they ran. I think it was a mixture of reliable historical fact and more dubious speculation, but very entertaining nonetheless.

Will look forward to hearing about Venice as that's where Matt and I are going for our honeymoon next May.