Rome, this was the biggy for me! The place I most wanted to go! It’s got so much history and that something that gets my geeky heart beating! When I arrived in the train station, I felt a strange mixture of excitement and complete exhaustion. The overnight train was a complete drain and to make matters a little worse we couldn’t get into our hostel until midday.

The hostel was called The Yellow and generally was very nice. It was close to the station which is always a good thing but this did mean it wasn’t the closest place to all of the sights. Anyway, we managed to dump our bags and began exploring. I have to say that this wasn’t a hugely memorable day as I was so tired I was practically a walking zombie. Even so, we visited the Piazza della Repubblica, Trinta del Monti and got to the Piazza del Popolo.



The Piazza del Popolo was what I expected Rome to be. Full of Roman architecture, fountains, sculptures and symbology. When it got to midday, we headed back to our hostel and had a well earned nap. 6 people in our room this time so we outnumbered the strangers…yey! I had a bit of a read of the Lonely Planet (the backpackers bible, definitely worth a purchase if you’re planning this sort of thing). The hostel had a bar downstairs so we had a few glasses of wine (to be more Italian and it’s a lot cheaper than beer) and went out locally to get some yummy Italian food.

We discussed the next day, we were heading to the Colosseum. Oh yes!! I was very very excited!