The Lazy Way of Blogging by Using Facebook Status Updates Sarah Reinertsen... is trying to convince herself she is neither too old nor too tired/jet lagged to go on the 20 euro!! guaranteed to get hammered!!! pub crawl put on by the hostel full of uni sophomores on spring break (16/4/09) would never have managed to buy bananas in an italian supermarket without the assistance of the nice man that said 'prego prego' a lot. For the record, one must wei...

By Sunday I had been out 3 nights in a row and was starting to look my age so I decided to take it easy that day, as well as make up for previous transgressions by doing the Colosseum 'properly'. Off I headed, on the metro this time, to come out of the train station into a torrential rain storm. (The Colosseum, if you've never been, is pretty much all outside) I had resolved to do this, so, off I go to get in line, and I realise the benefit of seeing outdoo...

Right, after 2 days of stuffing around/dealing with hangovers I thought it time to do some serious sightseeing. Ryan and another girl from his dorm, Lijiang, were keen on the Vatican as well so we went together. Outside the Vatican (and Colosseum, etc) there are all sorts of americans/ canadians/ english/ aussies/ etc flogging english-language tours of the applicable tourist attraction. We had heard the Vatican line-up is pretty hardcore (2 hours to get in etc) a...

I had planned to visit the Colosseum and Roman Forum today, so I got up with my guidebook and camera all set. Met my new best friends from the night before downstairs at the bar for our 2 euro cornetto/yoghurt/fruit/hot drink breakfast and off I went. About ¾ of the way to the Colosseum I realised that, wait, I was hungover...got to the Colosseum...looked at it...looked at the line...had to sit down...nope, not today. So I walked around the Colosseum, ...

Well arriving in Rome at 9 am after a transit stop in Zurich was a bit disorienting - naturally I got no sleep on the plane thanks to no seating preferences from the good people in Star Alliance (oh, Qantas, how I miss your knowledge and accommodation of my likes & dislikes). But the good thing is that Italy and South Africa are in the same time zone so, I can say farewell to jet lag for a while at least. The first time I put my backpack on - besides for nove...