Blogging on the bus from Rome to Florence now! Been so busy for the past 3 days in Rome so haven't had the time to update, and I realise I only ever blog when I'm travelling lol. But anyway this is the €1 bus ride from Rome to Florence thanks to Flixbus' promotion hehehe super worth deal cause usually it's €9 by bus or by train but only if you book super in advance!!
14 Feb Sunday:
Met Yilin at the hotel, checked in, showered (couldn't shower at the hostel the night before cause no hot water and flooded), then we went out. The location of our hotel was great cause it was really near Cavour metro, so it only took us about 20 min to walk to the Colosseum area. First stop as always was the Trevi Fountain! Surprisingly there was lesser people than the last time when I went in January. Then we went for lunch at L'Archetto again, which has the BEST PASTA IN ROME ever. I've been craving it since the last time! Ordered the Pasticciati again, but service wasn't as great as last time probably because it was during peak lunch timing.
After lunch we went to get gelato from the same store - Gelateria Valentino - again and I was wondering if the store owner recognised me LOL but he smiled at us!! And gave me a slightly bigger scoop hehehe. Walked around the shopping street then went to climb the Spanish Steps! Then we went to Brandy Melville at Via del Corso LOL. Spent a while in there and I bought a black velvet dress which was on sale for €10 while YL got a top and a burgundy jumper. We also went to a few more stores like Subdued and Double Agent which all seem to have the same style as Brandy but not as nice material. Then we came across this super nice store called Sophie Charlotte which is also kind of similar to Brandy style but they had cute stuff!! YL bought a dress and I got a pencil case with cactus print on it. They had the cutest pencil cases that says "Sophie" or "Charlotte" which imo makes great gifts HAHA I wish they had it in my name too.
YL had booked a free walking tour at about 1730h so we walked towards the Spanish Steps where the meeting point was. Was a bit late cause we had to go to the toilet and the tour guide seemed a bit annoyed when we arrived slightly before 1730 but the meeting time was supposed to be 1720 for registration. But the guy was really good!!! It's called "New Rome Free Tour" and the tour lasts 2 hours. Our guide was called Stefano and he spoke really good English and had an absolutely great sense of humour HAHA and now we know how to be proper Romans LOL. Anyway will highly recommend but I think this needs pre-booking online!!
We ended the tour at 1930 at the Trevi Fountain and after that we went to a place called Pizza Ciro for dinner which was a restaurant that we passed by during the tour. Stefano had recommended it to us so we decided to give it a try and have some pizza after having pasta for lunch. It was not bad but the serving portions were huge!!! I don't really know how to compare pizza but I think I prefer the softer ones ...
Got another gelato after dinner - went for lemon sorbet and mixed berries this time. The owners were so amused to see us go back!! I told the guy I went like so many times in January but he didn't seem to remember. Nonetheless he saw us taking photos so offered to take one for us then this random stranger man entered the gelateria and offered to take a photo of all of us but we ended up with a mass selfie instead HAHA. Walked back to the hotel after that and that concludes day 1!!
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Oops only actually just posted this on the bus back to Milan LOL but gonna type my other posts now too!!
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