Off to Rome for four days! What could be more exciting that that?! I think Rome has always been on my top list of cities to visit. So much history! We went with Christy and Will (our flatmates) and it was great having company for one of our trips.
We got in quite late but the train in from the airport was easy, finding the apartment office not so, but Will had a pretty good sense of direction. We got there in the end, got the keys to our apartment and headed for the metro. On the way we passed a beautiful church which looked out onto a fountain and another building which circled around the center roundabout. It was all lit up and looked beautiful.
So we were staying in an apartment and it was pretty cool. Rome apartments seem to have a similar setup, where there is a door on the street that takes you into a central courtyard which are surrounded by apartment blocks and then there are entrances to each apartment off that. We were on the first floor of one of those blocks. The door off the street was a bit of a laugh too as it was huge but then with a miniature door cut out of it for just people to walk through. Quite cool. Staying in an apartment was fun because you felt like you were living in Rome but the shower was probably typical of Europe and had two settings - boiling or freezing - and the Italians kept us up at night (or woke us early in the morning) talking really loudly and for ages in the echo courtyard so I had to resort to ear plugs but I still really enjoyed staying there.
We got in quite late but the train in from the airport was easy, finding the apartment office not so, but Will had a pretty good sense of direction. We got there in the end, got the keys to our apartment and headed for the metro. On the way we passed a beautiful church which looked out onto a fountain and another building which circled around the center roundabout. It was all lit up and looked beautiful. 
So we were staying in an apartment and it was pretty cool. Rome apartments seem to have a similar setup, where there is a door on the street that takes you into a central courtyard which are surrounded by apartment blocks and then there are entrances to each apartment off that. We were on the first floor of one of those blocks. The door off the street was a bit of a laugh too as it was huge but then with a miniature door cut out of it for just people to walk through. Quite cool. Staying in an apartment was fun because you felt like you were living in Rome but the shower was probably typical of Europe and had two settings - boiling or freezing - and the Italians kept us up at night (or woke us early in the morning) talking really loudly and for ages in the echo courtyard so I had to resort to ear plugs but I still really enjoyed staying there. 
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