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| Colosseum is fucking massive! |
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| The original plans for the Colosseum. |
So on today's episode, I let you know how ignorant I am as an American traveler. On June 11th, I traveled from Naples, Italy to Rome or Roma via the metro. Now, seeing as I have absolutely no experience with trains because we just don't use them here much, I had no idea what to expect. I mean, NO IDEA, like even how to buy a ticket and if my credit card would work. Turns out my credit card does NOT work at most train stations which led to many not so funny stories. It also turns out I brought the WRONG check card with all of my cash in my bank account so I had to transfer funds from one bank to another. Then, it took 1 week to transfer those funds, so when I did I thought I had enough for my trip. To top it off, my check card also didn't want to work at some of the ATM's. This led to another funny story of why I didn't make it to Amsterdam's red light district! Fuck my life right?
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| Random Californian I met. |
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| It's tall too. |
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| Huge marble gladiators. |
I think the one thing that saved my life is that I had friends from Naples already before I went there. That's why I booked my ticket to Naples, Italy, because I had someone to tell me about the area. Once I was there, I had 6 weeks to travel, random number I know, but I had a few drinks when I booked. He had me buy the Lonely Planet guide on Italy. If you ever travel BUY A TRAVEL GUIDE, or you may end up stranded or dead or raped I don't know, just buy one of these. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/italy My travel from Napoli to Roma cost me a total of 22 Euro and took 2 hours. I would have thought that this would cost a lot more. This is dirt cheap in my mind, to get from one major city to another is cheap in Europe and so easy! On my trip I had time to wind down and go through my guide to write down what to do for the 4 days I would be in Rome. I had my hostel in Naples, Hostel of the Sun, book me a hostel in Rome called the Yellow. Apparently, this place is known through out the world as a huge party place with a hundred people staying every night.
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| It's like a giant football field, but 2000 years old. |
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| Everything in Rome is giant sized! |
The Yellow is a half mile walk from the Roma Termini train station but it was a beautiful sunny day with 80+ degree weather. That's the best part of Italy, there are no clouds. When I had my transfer in London from Heathrow to Gatwick airports, it was COLD as shit and cloudy both times I went through. Italy is sunny and cloudless, not too windy, and not humid. I mean, I was sweating my ass off with my gigantic backpack but once I got it off, it was very nice weather. Rome is inland, whereas Naples was on the Mediterranean sea.
Next time I'll post pictures about the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatino, and other awesome things.
