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

[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.