Italy - Rome
Well, this is completely off topic, but today's pictures are still being loaded in another tab and I decided to use my time wisely instead of just staring at the screen, willing it to go faster. The wifi is really slow today for some reason so let's go back to my unfinished Italy trip.
From the Vatican City, we drove back to Rome and came past this huge marble building that was a monument of some sort.
Piazza Venezia
We finally managed to go to a supermarket on our fourth day in to buy water but mum obviously has different ideas. We ended up buying ham and olive oil (famous there), liquor, pasta, fruits, practically the whole supermarket.
It was quite interesting though. We went to quite a big branch so there was a lot to see.
This is the famous fountain in Italy, the Travi Fountain, where legend says if you throw one coin into the fountain, over your shoulder with your back turned against it, you would be able to return to Italy. If you throw 2 coins, you would get married and if you throw 3, you would get a divorce (don't ask me why, it works that way in the legends and stories)
We didn't manage to get a single one in - not because we did not try, but because it was so crowded, we couldn't even get close to it. We also jokingly wondered if the coins landed on someone else's head (opps!)
We continued down the streets, buying a gelato along the way in. My mum bought this flavor which we have never heard of before (and I told her not to because it looked like faked flavors with a bright purple syrup coating) and it ended up tasting like cough syrup (at least to us). We were pushing the back and forth because neither of us liked it in the least.
It took us quite a long walk and a few detours to finally arrive at
The Steps where basically people stop amidst all the business and just hang around. It was really crowded.
With the Steps as our meeting point, we were allowed time to go shopping on our own. Italy is quite famous for its leather products, so we mainly focused on getting those. It took us quite a while but we managed to find a good shoe shop where my mum bought lots of shoes for herself, for my brother and my father. I, on the other hand, opt to get a real leather jacket instead. I got an olive one for 149 Euros.
After all that shopping, we had to walk down a very long way to get back to the tour bus. My memory's kind of hazy on this especially without the next pictures to guide me right now (they are in my hard disk and I'm too lazy to get it right now). So until then, ciaos! Hopefully I can get the other pictures of today's activities up soon. I took tons today so it would take me some time to sieve them out.
Labels: Italy, Pictures, Rome, travel
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