More Roma

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Rome was incredible, of course. Everything was just so...Italian. The pizza and gelato on every corner. The beautiful old churches and ancient columns on every block. The Italians yelling at each other while gesturing wildly. The problem with traveling places is that it always makes me want to go back and see more, and Rome was no exception. We were there for almost a week and saw all the main sights, but there's just so much more to the city!


Something that Rome does 100% better than Madrid: the food. Obviously. Something that Madrid does 100% better than Rome: public transportation. I later found out that all the old stuff in the city center makes a metro system near impossible to construct without annihilating some precious artifact, which makes sense I suppose, but before I figured that out I did not appreciate walking across the entire city every day to get back to our hostel. It was a blessing and a curse though because walking around a city really is the best way to get to know it. It also made me appreciate the Madrid metro system that much more. There are so many available stops around here it's ridiculous.


The monuments were as you would expect, I'd say (awe-inspiring, momentous, what have you). We actually got to go to the Vatican for free because it was the last Sunday of the month, but had to get up early and wait in line for two hours. Definitely worth it, though, because they charge so much for that kind of thing and of course we don't get the EU discount. I actually preferred the more outdoorsy things we saw just because they weren't what I had seen in pictures and on TV so many times. Also it's always nice to see a couple trees after living an urban area for a few months. Tivoli was especially nice because it was outside the city. Such a refreshing way to end the vacation!


Especially because now I have about a million tons of work to do. Pardon me, a million kilos. Or maybe it just feels that way because I haven't really been doing any work up until now. I've been doing things like going to Rome...