Thursday, March 22, 2012

Vistors From Home

Erin's friends came to Italy for a week on their spring break. It was really nice to see people from home and have hot Cheetos and hot sauce. Those are the two things I missed the most from home.

Rome has these shops called Tabbachi. This is where you can buy you're bus tickets, cigarettes, stamps, lottery, etc. It is basically a very small convience store without the junk food. They are everywhere and their logo is a big T. Something I suggest buying here when you first arrive is a Roma Map for 3 euros. The map that's our school provide us is not very good. This map has all the monument enlarge and all the bus stops on it. It is also helpful when asking for direction or when you need to find where you are at because people can just point to it.

We have been here for 2 months and still did not do our sight seeing yet. We decided to learn our way around town first. Since we had visitors we did all the sightseeing then and the map helped tremendously. This is when I really saw how beautiful Rome was. It finally met my expectation after sightseeing.

Something I learned this week is stamps for mailing letters or postcards home is 1.70 euros.
Also you don't need to catch a taxi to the airport. Taxi without traffic is about 50 euros. Instead you can catch a bus to Termini (train station) and on the right side there are buses that can take you to either airports for 8 euros. I don't suggest this if you have many suit cases or an enormous one.

China Town is right next to the Termini and we like to go here because it's cheaper than normal supermarkets. If you don't like to cook or know how to cook this is where you can get ramen noodles. The only bad thing is carrying the bags back to the apartment. So when going grocery shopping carry a book bag or a big bag because they do charge for the bags and you might not make it very far with them.



Until next time.
See you later :-)

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