Sicily (Taormina) to Rome - For Dummies

Yeah I should look up what this, it was all over Sicily

So we got to ride the train for free, due to our inability to read our german tickets for transit from sicily to rome, we spent a few hours in the train station playing hillbilly and retard amongst the tourists.  They use military time in Europe!  Argh!  To our defense the tickets were written in German.

Thanks to the genorisity of a romanian family we were able to get into the right train.  And thanks to the fact that it was christmas day, we were able to ride the train for free.  In the train we met a 20 year old girl from Slovenia, who was enamoured by US culture, not because of art, history, or politics, but because of the Twilight New Moon tween phenomenah.  It was very sweet.  Unfortunately our stay in Taormina used up most of our energy and we were left with very little.  We got a little sleep from Naples to Roma, and finally awoke to a warm Rome. 
We slept into the evening, and finally awoke to walk around the city of Rome.  

Speaking of Naples, huge regret of mines.  I really wish we stopped there even if just for a half day.  That pizza in Eat Pray Love sounded so amazing.  

We hit the collosseum at first that appeared to be as majestic as its stories, and then we walked along the main river that cuts rome in half, and got to vatican city.  Unfortunately only the entrance piazza was open to the public.  evnestill it was totally worth it.  We ended the night at Fontana de Trevi, and wished for what our hearts really desired after a conversation reminiscent of Eat Pray Love.

Cool Gate near the Roman Forum

The next day, we woke very late due to the horrendous amounts of exercise we got the day before.  We awoke and first visited the National Roman Museum of History, which was full of sculptures of Greek and Roman origin.  there was a special emphasis placed on their hair styles.  And then we went to the Roman history of Antique Art held in the Barbari palace, which was amazing, and hopefully a teaser for tomorrow, when we get to see the insides of vatican city. 

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So far we have seen the inside of the Roman collosseum and spent the day exploring the Roman forum and the farnesine gardens, to get a sense of the life of the ancients.  I loved the orange trees that they had there, i cant imagine how it is in the spring time i bet it smells so citrusy!  Anyways, it didnt help that I wore really tight shoes yesterday which ended up mangling my little right toe.  Thank goodness for Rome being the motherland of comfort food.  And pesto like I cannot discribe.  For lunch that day we had burgers at the theater cafe, which were attrocious!  So I guess its common sense to not buy american food in Italy.  I was totally eyeing the pasta the ladies next to us were eating, if I only I had more time to order!

I remember what this one is called! The Roman Colloseum

This morning we woke up and saw some more churches in Rome.  We are trying to hit all of the top ten churches in Rome, I think we are almost done with the list.  Next is San Clemente!  And hopefully tommorrow we will hit the Sistine Chapel!  Buonasera!

Good bye Taormina, thank you for the lovely weather