Saturday, June 23, 2007

Rome Day 2 & 3, Pisa

Day 2:

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Went to the Vatican City on that day. Q-ed to get into the S.Pietro Basilica.





After that, we headed off to Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Spagna (Spanish Steps), Piazza Baberini, Fontana di Trevi & Piazza Navona. Later in the evening, we went back to Fontana di Trevi & Colosseo for the night view.








Day 3:
Didn't know where else to go since we've covered what we felt was the main attractions. Thus, headed to the Pantheon & Castel Sant Angelo:





Pisa:
After 3 nights in Rome, we took a train (trenitalia) to Pisa.
My camera battery died on the arrival of Pisa. So, not much pic...
Overnight at the airport again as our flight was at 6 am. Didn't know that the airport was close from 12-4 am. How's our faith like??

Rome Special Edition: FOOD

Welcome to the Special Edition of my Rome post whereby here is all about the food that we had. First of all, would like to introduce to u italian's biscotti (aka biscuits). Went to this patisseria and tried some of their bicuits:



When u're in Italy definitely cant miss their GELATO!! So we tried several flavours from several gelaterias. Here's one we tried near the Trevi Fountain:

The taste was just so-so. Hence, we decided to find out the BEST GELATO IN ROME and we came to this shop which was situated along the way to Trevi Fountain. This shop should be quite popular as there was a huge newspapaer cutting framed up and placed in front of the shop. The interior of the shop is very different from other gelaterias as this one looks more classy. Present to you, San Crisspino:

Their famous for several flavours like honey, pistachio, hazelnut. We tried the honey (beige), pistachio (green) and rum with cocoa (brown). The latter was the BEST!


Itlay's well-known for pizzas and pastas and basically thats what we always have. We tried out one of the pizzeria at Fontana di Trevi whereby they charge the pizza according to the weight. U rtell them how big the slice of pizza u want and they'll weigh it. Below is the size of a quarter pounder:




They were GOOD!!
On one of the evenings, we headed to Piazza Navona for dinner and came to this restaurante/pizzeria called Navona Notte. They were having special meal deals & we decided to give it a shot. We ordered this meal for 2 comprise of 1 appetizer (antipasti), bread, and 2 main course (pizza/pasta). It was only 7.50 Euro per person and they tasted GREAT too. Verdict: VALUE 4 MONEY.






Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Rome Day 1

We arrived Ciampino Airport at around 10.30 am their local time. First thing, we headed to Alessandro Palace Hotel to settle our accomodation. It's located at Via Marsala, close to Stazione Termini.


After a quick fresh up, we headed to our 1st attraction, the gigantic Colosseum. We also conquered the other attractions nearby like Roman Forum, Campidoglio and Circus Maximus. We got ourselves a BTI ticket which costs 11 Euro that enables us to travel using the metro and buses with unlimited rides for 3 days.





























When we finally reach Circo Massimo was already in the evening. Thus, we decided to go for dinner somewhere near Piazza Navona. Generally, when u are in Italy, there are only 2 things that u would be eating; pizza/breads or pastas. We came across this small corner shop with lotsa patrons, be it their locals and even tourist indulging their scrumptious meal. We decided to give it a shot.





Pizza: (Below) Funghi, (Above) Aubergine flavour



The pizza was really nice coz it's thin crustand the fillings on top of the bread is juicy/moist and not dried or burnt. Overall, it was GOOD.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

ROMA Day 0

As promised, posts on my Rome trip. Basically Eunice and I stayed in Rome for 3 nights before moving over to Pisa. We got ourselves the cheapest flight from RyanAir (it's like M'sia's AirAsia) and our flight was on Wednesday at 6.40 am. Thus, we decided to spend a night at the Glasgow Prestwick Airport since we could check in 2 hours before the flight. This is our bed for the night...

COMING UP: ROME Day 1

Monday, June 11, 2007

To me, sharing's not easy

I've got so much to blog about.

The process of me shifting out from JBC to Birbeck, the condition of my current living place, and my trip to Rome and Pisa. However, due to the restricted usage of Internet, most of of the time I would have lost interest in blogging by the time I get to use the net.

(Probably this is an excuse) Being the only child in the family, I've never shared anything with anyone before. OK lah, I did share my toys with my couz and friends but I've never share room with anyone before in my whole life. I'm so used to having the whole room, be it big or small, all to myself. I can do what ever I want, whenever I want. I can place anything, anywhere I feel comfortable to me. I am the kind of person who wants lotsa privacy, well at least would love to have more privacy to myself. So, probably u could imagine what would happen/ed when I'm sharing a room with my other friend.

Seriously, she is an awesome room mate, but I guess it's just that I'm seriously very used to being alone, I just seem to have difficulty in sharing the room with someone else. The thought of "I can't do so many things" keeps lingering in my mind. Tho, she always say that I can use the internet whenever I want to, but I do know that she needs to use it as well. Who on earth can live without the internet when u're in Glasgow? If there's one, i totally respect and salute to that fella! Of course if u were to ask me when I wanna use the net, I would tell u I wanna use it for the whole day coz there's so much I wanna do. Check emails, chat wiv frens, BLOG, edit photo, edit blog layout, watch movies/shows & SKYPE.

So if u ask me whether do I like my current living condition. It's definitely a NO.

I'm sure one day my room mate would be reading this. Just wanna let u know that whenever I looked PO or discontented with something, it's just because I havent get use to sharing. To tell u the truth, I'm not even trying to get use to sharing. I'm using the easy way out which is to escape from facing this problem.

In another event, I was lectured by my DAD the other day about my attitude. This has been a problem to me since I was a kid. If I'm not happy with something or disagree with someone, I would just keep my mouth shut & began to show no interest in talking about it again. It's shown on my facial expression. I wouldn't even wanna look at that particular person whom I disagree with, thus it's very obvious.

Just wanna say that it's really difficult to change one's attitude. I swear, I tried really hard to change mine and till this moment I'm still working on it. I'm trying really hard but unfortunately my hard work doesn't pay off.

I don't know what's the consequence of this post, but I just wanna blurt it all out. To my dear roomie, so sorry cos u gotta bear with me for a couple of weeks more before u can go back to ur home sweet home.
Nitez everyone!

UP NEXT: Rome & Pisa post

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Packing- Cleaning- PK

So, what is everyone been busy with lately? Definitely packing! Last couple of days we were busy packing those stuffs for shipping and today would be our last day in our hostels. We gotta check out from our current hostel (JBC) by 10 am tomorrow. Gotta clean the whole house before handing over the keys.

My whole body and limbs are aching. My foot is aching as well cause I ter-PK (aka 'pok kai') while getting down the stairs yesterday. Sigh~ And now it's swollen. How am I gonna move my stuffs tomorrow leh with one kaki tempang....

Sorta finish cleaning my room liau, that's why got time to blog for one last time. Began to miss my room. Tho not as comfy as the one back in Msia, but staying in this liltle room for 12 months liau, surely got some feelings wan mah...

Final glimpse of my room. Sayonara J-9-2!