Day 3: 29/01/14

Today I visited unmistakably the most beautiful landmark I've ever visited; The Trevi Fountain. The sound echoed throughout the narrow cobbled street as we approached the fountain from around the corner. My initial thought was that it is much bigger than I imagined, too big to capture the whole thing in one photo but I took a few close up pictures:

I tossed a 50 cent coin over my shoulder as I made a wish before spending the remaining time gawping. 

I've never been a huge ice cream fan but I ordered a Nutella and Haselnut ice cream cone as the ice cream was laid out like a work of art:

Jess and I then took the tram to the river before walking to a restaurant to eat. 

After eating we spent the rest of the day wandering around various pretty buildings along narrow cobbled pathed roads. 

Day 2: 28/01/14

It's safe to say early starts are a great deal easier on holiday in a beautiful city (8.30am in student time is 6.30am for everyone else). Today we went to the colosseum; stopping as we walked to gaze at various pretty landmarks. The colosseum was stunning, I took photos from the outside:

And here is Adam, Jess, Daniel and I on the inside: 

After staring in awe for a considerable amount of time and my reenaction of the song 'what dreams are made of' from The Lizzie McGuire Movie, we headed toward The Forum where a huge area of ruins were displayed. 

I took a beautiful picture of the view from the top of a building in The Forum.

You can see all the ancient ruins below which we then walked through before finding a pub to eat in. 

We ended the first day getting drunk in an Italian bar, student style. 

Day 1: 27/01/14

THE DAY HAS COME! 

I decided to stay up the whole night before travelling from Cambridge to Rome at 8am. I knew if I slept there would be a high chance of me missing the train and I was way too excited to sleep anyway. I struggled to keep my eyes open as the time got nearer although staying awake allowed me to sleep on the train, plane and coach as I was exhausted for the whole journey. 

We arrived at the hotel named Hotel Noto at approximately 6pm (Rome time) and headed out to seek Italian cuisine a few hours later. After aimlessly strolling around we eventually decided on a restaurant. Whitebar was the name of the restaurant we chose, and the access to free wifi connection may have been a high factor of choice as there's no wifi access in the hotel (which I am very disappointed about). The food was extremely filling, I had margarita pizza with a beer; both highly decent. 

Day 1 was a sleeping success! Now in bed and ready for the 7am wake up tomorrow!

Wanderlust

I'm hoping to travel a lot in the future, in fact my main desire in life is to travel. 

In a few weeks I will be heading to Rome - one of the most romantic cities in the world! I'm beyond thrilled as it has been somewhere I've always wanted to go. 

I shall be documenting my visit on this blog as a scrapbook-type documentation. I hope to do this with other places I travel to in the future also.

I leave for Rome on the 27th of January 2014 - to whoever reads this, I hope you enjoy sharing my journey!