Two days to go.
I should have known going to Rome wouldn't be as easy as I thought it would be. Getting up early on Friday, getting to Orly, finding the flight, figuring out Roman transit to get to my hostel, and spending three days there, all that is fine. But Monday morning is when it'll get hairy. My flight back leaves at 8:55, which, according to the EasyJet rules, means I have to be there at 8:15. The trains in Rome don't start til 5:30, and the bus to the airport only leaves every half-hour, but if it comes down to it I'll probably just get a taxi.
THEN, once I get back to Paris at 10:55 I have one hour to get to class to give my entretien presentation. I think I can do it; as long as I'm on the train by 11:20 I should be just fine.
And I still haven't decided which hostel to stay at. I really should have booked earlier. Oh, well, I'll find something.
Spring has hit Paris like a green bomb. All of a sudden the weather's consistently sunny and people are coming outside. I couldn't believe how many people were in the Jardin today!
If anyone has any more suggestions for what I should do in Rome, leave 'em in the Comments. Now I have to plow through the rest of my homework.
4 comments:
Possions D'Avril!! :P
oh and you must see the pantheon. Everything else is so renaissance and frilly. The Pantheon is just like raw awesome and simplistic.
PS pardon my terrible french grammar
Oh Eric!
Warren's right about the Pantheon. Don't miss the Trevi Fountain or the Spanish Steps, St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel. Everything that is "touristy" is still worth seeing and so old that you won't care if there are tourists around you. Walk everywhere and you will discover things. It is wonderful. You're going at a good time of year.
Since you are going now you really don't need reservations. Just take your handy guidebook with you and you'll be fine.
Don't take a taxi. The trains will be fine and it doesn't take that long to get to the airport from the main train station (less than an hour). This is true unless there is a strike. The Italians love to have strikes.
Take lots of pictures. I hope you love Rome as much as I do!
Yep, Warren's right about the Pantheon.
It's the nexus, the essence, the architectural embodiment of civilization.
The Pantheon abides.
Trajan's Column, the Coliseum are also in the serious gravitas club.
I don't have any suggestions. I am just writing to tell you to have fun and keep posting.
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