Articles tagged ‘rome’
Italy Q&A: 3 Weeks in September
By Jessica | July 11th, 2008 |
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Here’s another in my Italy Q&A series of posts. I got a note from Milton which read:
i am going to italy in september for about 3 weeks and was thinking about taking an apartment in rome, or maybe another town. i would love your thoughts. i don’t want to try to see everything in the [...]
Why I Love Moleskine City Notebooks
By Jessica | July 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I was planning my last trip to Italy, I’d already heard about the Moleskine City Notebooks - and in fact I already had the one for Milan, the city where I was going to be based. But when I first heard about these little gems, they didn’t yet have many cities covered. By the [...]
The Most Popular Museums in Italy for 2007
By Jessica | July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Anyone waiting in the long line to get into the Uffizi Gallery or the Vatican Museums on a hot summer day will recognize that they’re standing outside one of Italy’s top museums. But if you’re looking for a list of Italy’s most popular museums based on the actual number of visitors, Touring Club Italia has [...]
Hostels in Rome
By Jessica | June 25th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Looking for hostels in Rome? Here are some of the ones I’ve visited personally, or stayed in. The links go to the detailed reviews I’ve done, including photographs, so you can better choose which of these hostels in Rome is best for your trip.
Alessandro Downtown Hostel
Alessandro Palace Hostel
M&J Place Hostel
Mosaic Hostel
The Yellow Hostel
Here are a [...]
Trastevere Neighborhood in Rome
By Jessica | June 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a confession to make: I don’t love Rome. I respect Rome immensely, and always enjoy the majority of my visits there, but as yet the city hasn’t found a place in my heart the way cities like Venice and Florence have. Rome usually leaves me exhausted and overwhelmed, and in the past I’ve [...]
Can a guided tour get you past the Vatican Museum lines?
By Jessica | June 11th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of the biggest headaches about paying a visit to the Vatican Museums is that it’s often an all-day affair - and I’m just talking about the uber-long line you’ve got to wait in! So when I saw a link for a tour company that lets you book visits to the Vatican (among other sights [...]
Mosaic Hostel in Rome
By Jessica | June 4th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Personally, I would think running one hostel in Rome would be hard enough. But Alessandro of Alessandro Palace and Alessandro Downtown fame - you thought there wasn’t really an actual Alessandro, didn’t you? - decided not long ago that one more hostel couldn’t hurt. But rather than opening another under the Alessandro name, he opted [...]
Alessandro Downtown Hostel in Rome
By Jessica | May 21st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
With the success of Alessandro Palace, not to mention a steady flow of backpackers flooding into Rome, Alessandro (yes, there really is one) opened up another cheap Italy hostel on the other side of the train station from the Palace. The success of the second hostel has led more recently to it splitting into two, [...]
Hotel Positano in Rome
By Jessica | May 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ll admit that prior to my most recent trip to Italy, I’d never stayed in a hostel. And I had private rooms in all the hostels I stayed in on that trip, too. It’s not that I don’t like people, it’s that I’m just not the backpacker type - for one thing, I’m far too [...]
Italy Q&A: Getting from Fiumicino to Florence
By Jessica | May 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s question I got via email, so here’s another post in my Italy Q&A series. Allan wrote:
I arrive into Rome at about 7pm on a Friday night and need to connect to Florence to meet up with my family.
I note trains are about $65 and leave every hour or so, which would be fine, but [...]
