Happy Mother's Day to all ! For me, this day is another normal day! For my mom, I have celebrated with her yesterday. As for me, no one at home is planning something for me...I understand since they are still young..
Ok, since I have free time today, let me update about my recent trip to Italy..
Colloseum, the first place we visited on the 1st day of arrival to Roma ( Rome in English)..
This time I was travelled alone from KUL to Roma via Amsterdam (12hrs), my hubby fetched me at the Fiumicino airport (FCO) Italy . And the closer train station to our hotel in Roma is Termini Station.
This is Termini Station Roma..
My hubby suggested to take bus instead of train. According to my hubby, if you take train, it cost Euro 15 one trip per person (He arrived earlier than me, so he has checking around the rate ^_^). But take bus only cost Euro 5 per trip and took us around 1 hour to reach Termini station. We save a lot by taking bus!!
Surrounding scene when we walked to the hotel from Termini station (took about 10mins) ..
Surrounding scene when we walked to the hotel from Termini station (took about 10mins) ..
And I realized that Roma is quite difference from other part of city in Europe that I visited before, Frankfurt, Paris and Zurich..Their place is quite dirty actually, you can see rubbish every where.. Due to too many tourists, can't control well ? I don't know!
Also we realized that their cars are also very dirty and full of dust..almost all cars we seen were dirty this way..We just wonder why they did not wash their car, due to high water bill? I am not sure, no chance to check with a local people.
And I was quite disappointed for what I have seen on the first day, and tell myself that I will not come again! But later I changed my mind, hahaha..
After walked about 10mins, we arrived to the hotel (will update which hotel we stayed later). After done with check in, by not wasting any minute, we straight heading to Colloseum !
We walked back to Termini station, take train to Colloseum which was only 2 station stops.
Euro 1.50 one way per person...
Euro 1.50 one way per person...
My first meal in Italy. This shop located before Colloseum exit..
I have heard of Palmier , bought one to try, crispy and buttery, not bad..
Palmier are made from puff pastry and coated with sugar, shape like butterfly..Must find one day to make this at home..
And this was the best pizza that I have ever had (actually I did not tried many pizzas during this trip actually,hehehe) !! thick crust but very crispy and light!
I was so excited right after came out from the train station exit, Colloseum just in front of me!!
We were there about noon time, not many peoples actually , it took us about 30mins to enter.
There are two lanes to enter, if you have Roma Pass (you can read the benefit of getting this pass in this link, but we did not get one after studied and not worth for our plan), then you can pass this long Q ..
Entrance fee- Euro 12 for adult
We went there again on the last day to see night scene of Colloseum, not as beautiful as we expected (Took us 30mins by walk from where we were stayed) ! Night scene at Fontani di trevi has nicer scene, check out my post later..
Do come back for more of my Italy update.
We were even better than any backpacker, walked one hour from our hotel to train station because we want to discover Venice in short hour, hahaha. This was my outfit during this one hour walk, carry a light luggage, a DSLR camera, and a hand bag. Do check out what we have seen during this one hour journey by foot...stay tuned..
it takes me 3 hours to get to Rome, but i dont know, i dont have the desire to visit it. glad you enjoyed it!
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Wonderful pics of Rome>
ReplyDeleteDeepa
Happy mother's day!
ReplyDeletesound like 'honeymood' le, hihi
Happy Mother's Day! Enjoyed browsing through those beautiful photos, can't wait for more to come. Agree with you that Rome is quite polluted but the historical sites are breathtaking!
ReplyDeleteSonia, Happy Mother's day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day! After seeing urs I went back to look at my photographs- winter scene of Rome. Very different feel ..hehe... I guess u don't need to carry all the thick clothings around is a bonus.
ReplyDeleteLooking fwd to see ur Venice post
母亲节快乐:)
ReplyDelete叫你家男人带你去吃一餐丰富的嘛:)
在那个斗兽场大声喊
不懂有回音没有hor
哈哈
哈哈哈!!就是这个Rome的历史,差点害我的sejarah去荷兰啊!幸好最后还能及格。
ReplyDelete看来你的旅程一定很忙了。因为要拍多多美丽的照片。哈哈哈哈。。。。。。
很美的罗马,另人向往的地方!
ReplyDeleteSonia, 原来你很苗条叻!哈哈。。
Hebatnya! Saya belajar sejarah Rome & kagum dengan peradabannya!
ReplyDeleteHappy mother's day darling Somia...
Wonderful post , Sonia ! Couldn't help but laughed re dirty car / streets everywhere ! I just love the last photo ;D
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you and your Mom !!!
母亲节快乐~
ReplyDelete好美!好壮观哦!
羡慕死了~
Very nice, I would love to visit Rome too. Wishing you a great mother's day!
ReplyDeleteNice pics Sonia.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry your first impression about Rome was that it's a dirty place :(
ReplyDeleteI'm from Spain, but I lived in Rome for 9 months and it was the best experience in my life. It's such a beautiful city. I would have told you some tips if I had known you were going to visit Rome ;)
thanks for showing us around Roma! After this trip, you must be very fit! thanks to all the walking!! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. Pretty Sonia! Love the last photo^^
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for taking us for the ride. Can't wait to see more. Italy is a very romantic place. So, I'm sure you will discover more.
ReplyDeleteKristy
照片里的sonia很瘦,很漂亮呢。。。。。。
ReplyDeleteSonia ...好幸福的旅途
ReplyDelete这个四月天还冷冷的吧?
很想念去年的漫游(旅情都还没写完~)
SOnia 好漂亮。。嘻嘻
Wow the grandeur of the colloseum is unbeatable. Looking forward to your foodie photos from Italy!
ReplyDeleteNice trip, hope to see more of your Rome adventures soon.
ReplyDeletehappy mother's day sonia:)..Wow.. another wonderful trip and great photo sharing.. love the last petty photo..hehe..
ReplyDeleteWah, Sonia,you still looked so fresh after travelling for such a long hour! Minus the rubbish & the dusty car, love to see the Colloseum photos taken by you! That is the biggest piece of palmier that I've seen so far, normally it is only like 5cm big. This is one that I want to make for a long time!
ReplyDeleteWOW, wonderful picture! i need to get one DSLR camera too but first need to learnt the skill using bro's exiting Canon DSLR camera then only proceed for purchase
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Mother's Day!!!
ReplyDeleteSonia, my lecturer once told me when the tour bus arrived at the Colloseum, she refused to get down. She said because the Colloseum sure got hantu because many gladiators died there. She scared the hantu might follow her hah! hah!
ReplyDeleteLove love love your photos...Rome is so beautiful, the Italians are so emotional ....
ReplyDeleteHi Sonia
ReplyDeleteGreat post of Rome and Colloseum. Exciting trip you must have. Oh, btw, some Kiwis here also very rarely wash their cars....hehehe.
哈哈。。。我还是第一次从照片中看到你这位大美人。
ReplyDelete意大利的水准就是那样的,不过有些城市还是很干净的。 :D
dusty cars...hmmm...cham lo.....those who have allergy to dust sure sneeze non-stop
ReplyDeleteHai sonia..
ReplyDeleteAll ur pic vry nice..hppy mthr day to u..
Amazing coverage and photos as usual Sonia, and you look so smart and beautiful! Wish we could see more of you in the photos :)
ReplyDeleteHi Sonia, I have never visited Rome before but the Colosseum looks magnificent! I also walked Venice everyday for 7 days when we were there, it's actually quite a small place hor. Look fwd to reading more on your Italy trip.
ReplyDeleteSonia, Italy is one of my dream country but after visited, actually kind of quite disappointed, like what you said, the places are so dirty, dunno why they dun maintain hahaha.... but overall Italy still a very nice place, I will definitely go back again :D
ReplyDeleteI missed visiting this historical site when I was there years ago! Glad to see some nice photos of it now:)
ReplyDeleteThe car u show us is really dirty, black car become grey/white car >.<
ReplyDeleteSonia!
ReplyDeleteI just booked a ticket to Rome and exit Milan (excited now);haven't book hotel yet (there's 6 pax of us)
Any tips you can share with me? So email me at ngleyhong@hotmail.com, TQ fist!
i've been longing to go to this country..but nvr had the impression that it's dirty..hehe...anyway, that palmiers is huge!
ReplyDeleteHi, im italian :) it's so interesting to see foreign peoples impression about my country..yes, our cars are not so clean because we don't care about material things so much, especially cars, we only care that they're ok at a technical level..we don't care about keeping them clean..not as other countries does..
ReplyDeleteHi anonymous of Italian, Thanks for dropping by and now I understand why the reason of Italian's cars are not clean.. Maybe you are right, importantly is the technical level of the car is good. After came back from Italy, actually I started not to wash my car that often also and save the water bill ^_^..
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