The Italian Tour - Rome.

Bags packed, batteries charged, hats worn and our energy levels at the 100% mark! We were all set for our 10 day journey through a new continent, a new country.

Most of our journey was pre-planned and pre-booked which made the trip more enjoyable and relaxed and thus less troublesome and hectic!

We began our trip with an international flight to Rome. Landing there, we were escorted by our star world traveller Mr. Papa through the crowded airport and out on to the lobby with our luggage to meet our airport pick-up man-from the travel agency-who then drove us to our hotel and gave us our first sights of the roman empire! It was like we were watching a film being played outside our car windows!
The hotel room was atrociously tiny but hi-tech and cosy. We spent the rest of the day with a not-to-the-scale map walking through the streets along the river tiber, visiting near by monuments, taking billions of pictures of the alien place, shopping for souviniers and tasting new food!

That pretty much described the schedule that we followed through the whole tour!

On our second day in Rome, we visited the Vatican city. I could bore you with all the history, geography and architecture but I'll spare you and tell you how it felt to be inside the autonomous city in the italian capital. The Monuments and buildings were breath-taking of course but the best part was the gigantic St. Peter's Basillica. Despite all the crowd and rush-that was well felt and experienced inside The Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel- the enormous church had a strange tranquility amongst all the chaos. A must visit spot for all spiritual and religious seekers. Unfortunately we couldn't get a glimspe of the Pope as he was out of town.

On our third day in Roma, we were guided through the ruins of Rome. Great monuments like The Colosseo, Churches - St. Peter In Chains and lots of Piazzas. What we learnt that day about the beautifully maintained city was that 1) all the fountains had drinkable purified cold refreshing water. Available free for the public.
2) Architecture of the Romans is considered state of the art and no contracter or constructor can destroy any building to make a new one. Strict regulations are followed. If Dubai is for the modernized buildings, Rome and rest of Italy is for the preservation of history.

That night we fed our hungry tummies with wonderful thai/chinese food and lovley gelato, returned walking through the streets of Roma to finally put our tired throbbing feet to rest and charge our bodies for the next day that would take us to a brand new place!