Trip in Rome

It has been quite some time that I haven't updated my blog! Well, I have been quite busy this month. If you have followed up my blog you would know that I was in FR for a week for the GFKL conference. And right after that i went for our Valentine's trip to Rome and after then a project meeting for the "maybe" TV-project!

Let's just talk about our trip in Rome this time... We have spent 2 nights, 3 days in Rome. Of course we were at the Colosseum, Vatican, Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, Spanish Steps... We have spent also a lot of time just walking around in downtown and discovering the small streets in Rome. More importantly is to discover good restaurants. First dinner in Rome was terrible. We took the suggestion of the guy at the lobby and went to a nearby restaurant. It is very crowd, claimed to won many awards, full of English people. We even have to wait for like 30 mins before we got sitted. We ordered Pizza and Spaghetti but they tasted so bad that we couldn't even finish our food even though we are so hungry!! Anyway, the next day we were very careful in selecting the restaurant and make sure that we go to places where there is almost no tourist at all, especially Englander(hee hee)... Food is also quite expensive there in Rome. As most Italians eat 3-5 courses a meal (pasta usually comes before the main course) that meas a plate of spaghetti is only 1/2 a portion of what we usually eat but of course the cost of a full price. So in order to get full, you will have to take several courses until dessert to finally feel full. Beside the simply spaghetti and pizza dishes, we have of course tried some less "popular/international Italian food". We have tried marinated grilled vegetables, grilled steak, beef with ricola with baked potatoes...etc! YUMMY!! So that was where most of our money goes, to the stomach.

In general, I find Rome quite nice but we both think Barcelona is nicer and the atmosphere is also better... one thing that we didn't like was that the U-Bahn closes at 21:00!! On the second night, we finished our dinner at 22:00 and of course we have to walk back to our hotel. Rome is not as dangerous as I thought though... we didn't really worried about walking alone at night... we bumped into several drunken english people though! sigh...
O... and not to forget the hotel.. it is fine... just as expected (because we didn't have much expectations... HEE HEE)... It is not very luxury but just clean and good enough.
Alright.. i guess i better stop writing and show some nice pics from my mobile.