Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 April 2014

A Port Day in Rome.

One of my favourite places I have visited when cruising has to be Rome, Italy is the oddest of places beautiful scenery, fields and fields of sunflowers, hustle and bustle and graffiti.  I could not get over the graffiti when we fist visited Rome. How on earth could anyone desecrate such a beautiful place and why don't they clean to up? 

We have done a few tours of Rome but decided to go it alone last time, it was great have the flexibility to do and go exactly where we wanted to, without being ushered along by tour guides. It was easy getting the train it was a 5-minute walk from the port, and cost about 24 euros for the 4 of us. The train was comfortable and air conditioned, which made the 1-hour journey comfortable.

Our main aim of the day was to visit the Trevi Fountain, Chris's Lovely Granddad had visited Rome during the war and had always told the family that throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountains ensures you will one day re visit Rome, and the fountain. Unfortunately he was never able to this in his lifetime so we decided his great grandchildren would this for him.

Keats Death Mask