A Day In The Life...

WHEN IN ROME...

For several weeks, I was contimplating what to do over the Veteran's Day weekend. It was my first time that my duty didnt fall over a long weekend and I really wanted to do something, anything. After surfing the net for flights, I came up with some reasonable choices: Paris, Rome or London. Paris was at the top of my list since I found a roundtrip flight for about 100 Euros. My only problem though, was to find someone to take me to and from the airport. I could take an Italian taxi, but that would cost 60Euros. I asked several people but no one could give me a firm yes or no...So after 2-3 unsuccessful days I had to switch to Plan B.

Plan B was to go to Rome. A friend of mine mentioned he and another friend were headed to Rome for the holiday. He also mentioned that two separate groups were also going. I called one of those groups and asked if there was room for me to tag along and he said, "Sure". So we purchased our tickets at the airport Friday morning to catch an afternoon flight.

After a short 45 minute flight we took a taxi into Rome to check in to our hostel. Once we located the building and set down our bags and decided to get some Chinese food at the restaurant below us. After savoring there jasmine rice and sweet and sour chicken, we decided to met up with one of the groups at another hostel. There, we ate some more dinner, drink beer and began to party with international students. George and Yala were the 'host and hostess' and invited us to go out with them to the Capo di Fiorni.

Bars to the left, bars to right, we were surround by at least 15 bars and all filled with people; students, tourist, locals, you name it....Drink, drink, drink and we did....we stumbled home around 3'oclock in the morning....

posted by Frogue @ 2:53 AM