The hotel- we stayed at the royal palace hotel. It is a 5-10 minute walk to the Vatican. The hotel has 10 rooms and a really bad view! The floors were texturized wo we had to wear shoes all the time and Autumn couldn't crawl on the floor. The room was nice and cozy other than the floors. The hotel provided wireless Internet. They also brought breakfast tom the room. Lots of bread, cereal, eggs, meat, cheese, juice and coffee. A suitable breakfast for a family backpacking Rome.
The food - AMAZING! While there we had- gelato in vanilla, cookie, cappuccino and lemon. Proschuto de prima sandwhiches, spahgetti, tortallini, tiramisu, lemon cake, lemon chelo, wild berry crepe, all kinds of pizza, cappuccino, water form the fountains of Rome, Italian coke, olives, mozzarella,wine and bread. I really think that Italy is God's kitchen!
The flight- we flew from Brussels to champigono via Ryan air. While it was cheap I am not a fan. Tho we will probably fly through them again. If you leave ur ticket at home you will pay for another. Bad customer service! But u get what you pay for. No assigned sitting. Was weird for me but neat. The stroller survived to and from and so did Autumn. It wasnt bad at all but we had to pay from autumns return ticket twice. The parking cost 55 euro for 5 days. It as fine.
The tour - we paid for a tour of the vaticAc, basilica, an Sistine chapel. The lady that gave us the tour was very I formative and nice. We really enjoyed it. Michell Angelo is kind of An ass. The story has it the pope Of that time hired M.A. to paint and his paintings were not very"catholic" so one of the cardinals kept running to the pope about every tiny thing that M.A. painted. He pissed off M.A. so much that the wall of the last judgment he painted this cardinal in hell with donkey ears and a snake wrapped around him I hell. This cardinal went to the pope and he asked him to get him out of hell. The pope said that his jurisdiction is heaven, he had no jurisdiction over hell. He told the cardinal that he would have to stay I hell. There was nothing that he could do! I thought that was interesting.
Places we saw- Castel St. Angelico at night. It was pretty. Piazza Navona, had very pretty fountains. I thin, we went to the Spanish steps... Idk. We saw the great mouth. Where parliament goes. Collessium, and the ruins, where the Christians were persecuted, the chariot park.. And the list goes on!
It was amazing and if you can go to Italy do! Take an extra suitcase for souvenirs and stay for at least 2 weeks! Oh, and Italians loooooooooooove babies!
Side note-the hotel did not have a p lace for autumn to sleep so she slept in a drawer that pulled out from under the bed. I lined i t with a thick quilt provided by the hotel and she slept safe and sound!
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