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Rome in three days!

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A year ago I visited Rome and I decided to write a non-traditional blog about it. Rome is visited by many people and you can hear from them which buildings you have to visit or which museums. Or you could buy a travel guide or read some blogs about Rome on the internet. In my blog I would like to tell you my story. A story about strange, funny, nice and beautiful happenings I experienced in Rome, divided into many little stories.

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Rome in three days!

October 22, 2007

St. Peter square

We read in our travel guide that it could be very busy in Vatican City when you want to visit St. Peter. We decided to visit this church in the morning and we were just on time. Five minutes after we entered the row in front of the church the row became bigger and bigger. We were so happy that moment that we were so early.

So lucky we were that moment, so unhappy we were when we wanted to visit the Vatican Museum. We left St. Peter square and the row for the Vatican Museum started directly. It was a row of almost one km and it was cold, very cold.

The guy with the big moustache

My dad bought some pizza :D:D for us. Luckily the row didn’t enter the museum very slowly. We talked with the people around us and we wondered about all the illegal immigrants who wanted to sell you some crappy stuff. They sold bags or watches or standards for a photo camera. And everybody sold the same stuff. A guy (with a very big and funny moustache) behind us bought a standard for his photo camera.

When we entered the museum the row continued. We walked in the neighbourhood of the same people as we did outside. It looked like a snake which was sneaking through the museum. Everyone followed everyone and when the museum spit out some people, it ate some new people. It was not my most memorable experience, we were packed like sardines. Luckily it was hot inside.

One evening we ate at a beautiful restaurant, but the staff was very bad. The owner was completely filled with stress hormones and he was the only a staff member.

inside St. Peter

He had to serve around 150 people on his own. At a certain moment he opened a little can of coke for me and the cola spouted out of the can right into my face. It was a strange experience, but we (and everybody in the restaurant) laughed a lot. It was almost a cabaret show. And the food was delicious, especially the lasagne. Jummy :D:D.

Our last evening in Rome, we ate at a little restaurant near our hotel. That day we met some friends from home and we met them at this restaurant. Two days ago we had eaten at this same restaurant and the tortellini was very delicious.

It was a typical Italian restaurant. The son and the father were the waiters and the mother was the chef. The father was the funniest one, because he didn’t walk very flexibly. The first time he came to our table, he smashed the menu card on our table. My mum was shocked, but after a while we got sympathy for this old man. It was clear that the son was the big boss and that his father had to listen to him.

Everything was handmade and very very delicious in this restaurant. The best food I ate in my life.

At the end of the evening a group of old Italian men entered the building and we saw him directly. He looked like a mafia member, a sinister figure. A member he wasn’t, he only came to the restaurant to watch the football match of AC Roma.

A nice end of our little trip.