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granger
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Rome
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I am fortunate that my career allows me to live as a digital nomad.
So, I lived in Rome for 10 weeks this summer and fell in love with the city. I am not a city person, the dubs would call me a culchie but Rome felt special.
Everywhere is walkable (I love walking) and always a new piece of architecture, a ruin, a gallery or a church to view. Beautiful old streets, coffee shops, pizza parlours galore.
The heat was 37 degrees a lot of days but I tolerate heat well, so loved it
Great food, gelato's and some very friendly people. A great train serrvice (when not striking) means I saw some random cities like Genoa and Bologna as well as some of the South of Italy (there I must do properly)
I am now back in Ireland until November and its raining..Roll on the jumps
My original post did save properly so must rewrite.
I am fortunate that my career allows me to live as a digital nomad.
So, I lived in Rome for 10 weeks this summer and fell in love with the city. I am not a city person, the dubs would call me a culchie but Rome felt special.
Everywhere is walkable (I love walking) and always a new piece of architecture, a ruin, a gallery or a church to view. Beautiful old streets, coffee shops, pizza parlours galore.
The heat was 37 degrees a lot of days but I tolerate heat well, so loved it
Great food, gelato's and some very friendly people. A great train serrvice (when not striking) means I saw some random cities like Genoa and Bologna as well as some of the South of Italy (there I must do properly)
I am now back in Ireland until November and its raining..Roll on the jumps
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jinnyj
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Rome is lovely. It seems everywhere you walk there’s another stunning ancient building to see, almost like an embarrassment of riches. Ten weeks there would have been utter bliss for me..you should have shouted I would have abandoned here and come with you! :lol:
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Thanks everyone... would be next spring I would think. A weekend in York also on the cards this side of new year hopefully. I've wanted to do this for some time and friend fell in love with Yorkshire when we stopped to visit Rowley - Schiehalion Munro - on the way back from Scotland couple of years ago. Anyone with recommendations to stay around/in York gratefully received also.
I'm heading to Rome for a week soon. I have developed an interest in Roman history over the last couple of years and the fambly chipped in and are funding a trip as a Christmas present. I'm planning a full day in Pompeii/Herculaneum/Vesuvias - is this enough? In relation to Rome itself, a Lazio home game and 2 days of personal/small group intimate queue jumping tours is the plan. Again, if anybody can share recommendations etc it would be welcome.
I've spent time in Rome previously, but it was encumbered by other people! This one is all for me.
I've spent time in Rome previously, but it was encumbered by other people! This one is all for me.
jinnyj
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Definitely post on the Tripadvisor forum, well specifically the Rome and Pompeii sub-forums. There are plenty of locals who will give you brilliant advice as to how long you need to explore an area as well as tips to avoid huge queues. I have often posted on there in advance for various trips I have been on and their advice has been invaluable.
Just post your intended itinerary and ask for suggestions.
Just post your intended itinerary and ask for suggestions.
G-G
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You can do Herculaneum/Vesuvias in a day, Herculaneum not very big but worth it. Pick up the tour booklet at the entrance as very informative and plots your way round. For Vesuvias they take you up so far in a coach and then you walk the rest, it's about 1100 metres from the drop off and a steady incline all the way. They 'allow' couple of hours ish so need to bear that in mind that you may not be able to really linger unless you try to go it alone?
Pompeii is much bigger site, I would say do the audio tour, which is about 2 hours but it's interesting as nothing labelled as you walk round the site so get a lot from it. It may be very warm and there's not a lot of shade/ready made places to sit etc so take plenty of fluid with you. Pompeii entry/tour was 60 Euros I think from memory - we were there in April this year. Loads to see there after the tour which will only cover one/two sections of it. The very large amphitheatre is the furthest from the entrance but worth the walk.
You need very comfortable shoes as walking along the 'roads' they are all cobbled so you need to watch your step and take your time... the ruts from chariots still there to see. We were probably there a good 6 hours plus not including sitting down for a break for some lunch.
They are all on the same train line very easy to get to and the trains are very cheap. They don't run on time and a lot of the smaller stations have no boards/annoucements etc so keep an eye on where you are in case you did what we did and took the wrong one and took ages to get back after realising. That was on the way back from Naples which was a waste of one of our afternoons.
We really enjoyed our time there, day in Capri in memory of my Mum who saw it on the war news when Gracie Field was exiled there.
When googling a lot of the prices for things on the net we found were out of date and the tend to quote one way prices for things ( ferry to Capri was twice as much as was advertised, chair lift there too.... 7 Euros one way - do you want a return the guy said, well we're not walking down, thanks! ). Drink/food prices in a par with here really right now, obviously subject to some variation.
My friend who's a coffee addict very disappointed with the coffee as always lukewarn and she wasn't impressed!
Enjoy!
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granger
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I used this site for guidance but was lucky also to know a local
https://fullsuitcase.com/different-things-to-do-in-rome/
I hung out in trastevere in the evenings to people watch, eat, drink and gelato
In more obvious sightseeing, just dedicate a day to walking inside all the churches