Sunday, July 10, 2011

Intermezzo Europe D3 - Roma

Day 2 - Outside hotel.
smart car is the baby of  Daimler-Benz AG (Merc Benz maker) and Swatch (watch maker) is the most common transport for the Romanian here.
Exploring our neighborhood before breakfast.
The same breakfast for the next 15days.
In rome central, tour bus will have to pay a 220 Euro levy to enter their town. Talking about our ERP being expensive.




 Fontana di Trevi supply water to the city for the Romanian for centuries.
Tre is three and Vie is way/road in Italian.

Used the wrong mode, some of the picture from my 550D turn out blue-ish.
My favorite Trevi shot
My 5 Euro picture, turn out to be cute :)


Fountain of old boat "Fontana della Barcaccia"
Shape of the half flooded boat was build in memoriam of the flood that brought the boat into the square in 1598.
2nd time to the square! 
No fancy shopping mall in Italia to protect historic skylines.
Most expensive hotel in Roma. Tom Cruise said to be staying here during the filming of mission impossible.
Lateran Palace
Victor Emmanuel Monument  built as a tribute to the first King of a united Italy, Victor Emmanuel II.
 Santa Maria in Cosmedin with the famous Mouth of Truth (La Bocca della Verità).
 It was believed that if one told a lie with one's hand in the mouth of the sculpture, it would be bitten off.
Check out the queue
 View of Palatine Hill, the most center piece of seven hills of Rome.

Colosseum, largest amphitheater build by the Romans.
Sunday is a football day


Structure of Colosseum.
Our hottie local guide
Status seat, Mayor in front and slave behind (on the top).
Beautiful architecture
 Arch of Constantine  Looks like the kings from that era likes to build arch for every winning warrior, there are so many arches around.

Vatican City
St. Peter's Basilica, the place where Edward try to kill himself in Twlight 2.
St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City "Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano". Build by quite a few of famous architect including Michelangelo.
Hubby is very proud of this light room work.
This place is said to be the most elaborated catholic church in the world.
Sunday service

Very bad planning of agency. We are starved till 3 plus 4 pm before we can have our lunch and dinner is serve at 6pm.
Bacon Cabonara
Spicy pasta 
Grilled chicken leg
Dinner is CHINESE! Damn the agency, 70% of our meals here are Chinese! Horrible, this isnt mention when they are selling the package to us. Feedback to the tour guide, he reply "yes a lot people already feedback to them", then damn them still not doing anything about it. Five Star is horrible for Europe serious, planning, communication and coordination is very bad, if not for our travel mates, we would have ruin our honeymoon trip. Try Trafalgar Tours or Eu holidays for those who are looking to go Europe in a group.
Never had so much egg + chicken stock + starch soup in my life. Almost all Chinese restaurant here serve this rubbish, anyone can be a Chinese chef in Europe.
Soya sauce chicken. Chinese in Europe is generally okay, comparable to mixed rice (Chai Ben) standard.

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