I'm so glad I found this TR! I recently read one of your comments on a Disney TR and realized you had started this! I still have your 2014 TR bookmarked How wonderful you were able to do another trip to Italy. Really enjoying reading about it and seeing the beautiful photos. Especially like the nighttime pictures of the Colosseum - stunning! We're taking our first overseas flight in Sept. and appreciated your tip about packing some things to freshen up with. That never occurred to me. We land in Amsterdam mid morning and will sightsee most of the day before boarding our river cruise ship. Looking forward to reading more!
I'm so glad you found me! Our first Italy trip was a dream come true...getting to go again just a few years later was simply amazing!! And definitely very unexpected.
I saw a lady do that with her kids on our
ABD trip when we flew overnight to Rome. It was definitely a great idea!
Are you doing a Viking river cruise or another line? We really appreciated the great service and beautiful ship with Viking. I'd love to do one of their river cruises one day.
Great recap of the food tour! I was not a very good Catholic that day (well, at least for the food tour, I was better during the day) and did have the meat options. In fact, at the deli stop they started just cutting off prosciutto and other meats and handing them out to us - I mean, when in Rome I guess
Judi did avoid the meat since she normally doesn't eat beef or pork anyway so she had a lot of what you did - and it was definitely a pumpkin soup at the wine cellar stop
Haha It was tough to be a good Catholic on this trip!! Fasting on Good Friday was the WORST. It's so hard to fast when you're surrounded by delicious food options...and gelato!!
I thought she had said pumpkin but I wasn't sure! I'm glad I had her to tell me because I had never had pumpkin anything before, so I didn't recognize the flavor. But it was really good!
Did you all try any of the more exotic flavors of Gellato? I know they had a tobacco one and one that had ginger and horseradish (and other stuff) which I tried (and you could taste all the flavors in it!)
We did not. It was too adventurous for me. I like sticking with the classics!! lol
Overall Sprito de Vino was my favorite stop - for the food and the history (our guide said the floor we were standing on was excavated and was 80 years older than the Coliseum)
Speaking of the Coliseum - those are some pretty spectacular photos
@DDuck4Life got! Though I can understand you being nervous without having cell phone access to him - especially given that the Coliseum wasn't just around the corner from the hotel or anything!
Spirito de Vino was a favorite both times we have done this tour. And both times we wished we would have gone back there for a meal during the trip but never had the time!
I think that was what freaked me out the most. It was a decent hike over to the Colosseum, and at night in a foreign country it had me on edge not being able to keep in contact with him.
There's something semi-amusing about being a Catholic in Rome (and so close to the Vatican) and having meat pushed on you during a Friday in Lent.
Very true!! The guide seemed surprised when I said I wasn't vegetarian, just Catholic.
I bet the Trevi fountain at sunrise was beautiful. I can't imagine it not being swarmed with people, though!
It was incredible to see it with hardly anyone else around AND at sunrise! It was worth getting up crazy early on vacation just to see that.
Glad you were able to tour the Colosseum more in-depth than the last visit.
Taking this tour was a great decision. We both loved having more time inside of there.
Loved your recap of the food tour. Your guide sounds like he was quite the character. I can only imagine his reaction when he tried to wrap his head around the fact that you all had met via the internet. It sounds kind of crazy in theory but I don't think any of us here find it the least bit odd.
It was so difficult to explain without sounding incredibly strange!! lol I'm sure it's hard to wrap your mind around it unless you are in it. It seems so normal to me. When I try explaining it to people at work, it's like, "Well there's these people that do a Disney podcast..."
That's the best! It's my husband's absolute favorite flavor.
I'm not exactly sure why, but we have a ton of Italian restaurants/gelato shops here, so during the summertime whenever we're out and about we hit a stand up a get a scoop of stracciatella for 1 Euro. It's wonderful.
It's SO good!!! I miss good gelato...
Ugh, the struggle is real over here in Germany. When we went home in April, I was SO excited to see what shows and movies were being offered on American Netflix.
I can imagine!! I guess I just always figured Netflix was Netflix until then. I wonder if they would have shown up if I had downloaded some episodes to watch off of wifi?