We're Here!
We arrived in Rome the day before the tour began to help get over jet lag and have a little more time to explore on our own. So, after 21 hours of door-to-door travel, we found ourselves in our nice little Roman hotel, the Hotel Sonya. We were, understandably, feeling pretty burnt, hungry and tired. After a quick lunch (pizza, of course, and it was pretty good) we showered, napped for an hour and then hit the streets for fresh air and exercise - the best cure for jet lag.
We walked for hours - and almost 5 miles according to our GPS - before eating our first Italian dinner in a lovely restaurant where we learned the joys of multiple small portions of deliciousness! Although we both slept well that night, we were still moving a bit slow from the previous days’ travels and we knew that, once the tour started, we’d be going fairly hard, so we simply strolled to a couple of sites close to the hotel, specifically Santa Maria degli Angeli Church (built on the Roman Baths of Diocletian) and the Capuchin Crypt (where the brothers did some strange things with bones). Highlights:
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