Italy all the way...
The next leg of our trip included Rome, Pisa, and Vatican City over two days. The Trevi fountain in Rome, which has been featured in movies like ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’ was our first stop. Our guide told us what we already knew – that if we dropped a coin into the Trevi fountain, we would come back to Italy –or at least that’s how the story goes. He also said if we dropped two coins, we would find a good spouse. I had a sneaking suspicion he was just kidding, but a lot of people got more generous with their purse strings when they heard that!
We then went to the Colosseum, which stirred up scenes from the Gladiator and other films that have portrayed its bloody and violent history. My mom, in particular, was simply fascinated by the Colosseum.
The next day, we went to Pisa. It was a cool, rainy morning and umbrellas were being sold for five euros everywhere. We saw the famous leaning tower, which is one of the wonders of the world. We posed for pictures and some tourists were taking the customary picture where they pretended to push the leaning tower with a finger.
When we went to the Vatican city that afternoon, we were entering the smallest independent state in the world both by area and population. We saw from afar the place where the Pope lives. The art housed in the Vatican literally took our breath away! Just my luck that my camera didn’t work very well inside the rather dark rooms, and I missed out on a lot of beautiful pictures. My co-passengers were very sweet and shared the pictures taken on their fancy cameras with me :)
This brought us to the end of our tour of Italy and although we visited a lot of scenic places in Europe, Italy will always remain my favorite.
The next leg of our trip included Rome, Pisa, and Vatican City over two days. The Trevi fountain in Rome, which has been featured in movies like ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’ was our first stop. Our guide told us what we already knew – that if we dropped a coin into the Trevi fountain, we would come back to Italy –or at least that’s how the story goes. He also said if we dropped two coins, we would find a good spouse. I had a sneaking suspicion he was just kidding, but a lot of people got more generous with their purse strings when they heard that!
We then went to the Colosseum, which stirred up scenes from the Gladiator and other films that have portrayed its bloody and violent history. My mom, in particular, was simply fascinated by the Colosseum.
The next day, we went to Pisa. It was a cool, rainy morning and umbrellas were being sold for five euros everywhere. We saw the famous leaning tower, which is one of the wonders of the world. We posed for pictures and some tourists were taking the customary picture where they pretended to push the leaning tower with a finger.
When we went to the Vatican city that afternoon, we were entering the smallest independent state in the world both by area and population. We saw from afar the place where the Pope lives. The art housed in the Vatican literally took our breath away! Just my luck that my camera didn’t work very well inside the rather dark rooms, and I missed out on a lot of beautiful pictures. My co-passengers were very sweet and shared the pictures taken on their fancy cameras with me :)
This brought us to the end of our tour of Italy and although we visited a lot of scenic places in Europe, Italy will always remain my favorite.
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