Rome: A City with Some Pretty Cool History May 21st to 24th Part II: On our last day in Rome, we decided to venture out of the city to visit a place called Ostia Antica. Ostia Antica is sort of like Pompeii. It was a working-class Roman city of 60,000 people that had been abandoned at one point, and was eventually covered in silt from the Tiber River. It was discovered again in the 1930's and has been under excavation ever since. Originally, Meghan and I were ...

Rome: A City with Some Pretty Cool History May 21st to 24th Part I: After meeting up in Florence with Lauren and Ryan, we all decided to go to Rome together. We booked a place for the four of us to stay, and met there since Lauren and Ryan had gone to Pisa the night before (and Meghan and I were still in Florence.) Meghan and I arrived in Rome around 1:00 in the afternoon and made our way to the hostel, which was conveniently close to the train station. We dro...

(Pisa and) Florence: Mmm.... Gelati! May 19th and 20th Meghan and I caught a train early in the morning on Thursday to Pisa. We were enroute to Florence, but we had to go through Pisa, so we figured we might as well take advantage of the fact that we had to pass through and get the typical tourist photos of us holding up the Leaning Tower. We arrived in Pisa just before 11:00am, checked our luggage at the train station so we didn't have to carry it around, boug...

Cinque Terre: An Absolutely Gorgeous Place to Visit May 16, 17, and 18th Cinque Terre, which is a national park in Italy, was our stop for the past few days, and easily one if the most gorgeous places I have ever been. Cinque Terre is along the northwestern coast of Italy and consists of five villages that are connected by trains and hiking paths through the mountains. We arrived in Riomaggiore on Monday in the late afternoon after catching a train from Milan...