Our second day in Rome--
Sonia, our tour-guide, took us around the Trevesvere area which is where all the clubs and restaurants for young people are located. She's really good and recommending where the go--the only things is we can never remember where everything is once she is gone. After we went to dinner at Antica Biblioteca Valle which consisted of a four course meal as a welcome dinner. (pictures below) It was so fancy and nice but I rather chicken nuggets or corn dogs because of the mysterious meat that I consumed. The dinner took about two hours because they wait 20 minutes in between meals. Two hours of unlimited wine so after dinner we went ahead to the bars as a class. Not sleeping for 36 hours at this point, it was definitely brutal so we all agreed to go out earlier so we can go back earlier. We quickly found out that no one goes out until midnight.... 10 pm is when people were eating dinner so finding somewhere to go was a challenge. We found an empty bar so we just went in to start the night. We missed Aperitivo, so we ordered drinks at full price and convinced the bartender to give us Aperitivo discounts and he agreed. Aperitivo is the Italians' version of "Happy Hour" except it works a bit differently. You pay for one discounted drink and get to eat a buffet for a pre-dinner. We have yet to try it so I don't know exactly how that works. Aperitivo goes from 7-10 pm then they eat dinner at 10pm so everything is just a bit later and I find it hard to adjust because I tend to eat at the same time everyday.When we walked in the bar--music was playing songs that none of us ever heard of --they soon started playing American Pie and chanting USA by the end of the night. Every drink that we bought came with a free shot of Rumplemints so we have plans of going back there soon.. Definitely a good way to start the trip.
The next day we were awoken up at 8am from a farmers market that was setting up RIGHT outside our apartment (below) which varied from cute clothes to jewelry, to power tools. Some things were so neat and other parts I felt like I was at a garage sale. There were thousands of booths and definitely overwhelming. It happens every Sunday, and I am hoping to hit up the next one! We got back from the market about 2pm then it started to rain so the beach was out of the question. We all took naps then headed for the Colosseum to eat dinner walk around ect by using the Metro and get there, no problem. We soon found out that the restaurant that we agreed to go to did not have a server that spoke English so we had to talk to the cook. We decided to not rely on the metro but to walk back and try to meat our other friends at the bar because it looked like a short distance on the map. It took us two hours to walk back but we happened to run into the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon so the night turned out okay! My feet are definitely feeling it today.
Third day in Rome--
Today was officially our first day of class. We were lectured about the history of Roman food from 10-1 then had an hour break from 1-2pm for lunch. We then had a tour around Rome visiting the most popular and authentic restaurants. We got to meet the chefs-- visited a wine cellar that had a bottle of wine for 15,000 Euro, had an espresso, and topped it off with gelato. For tonight we are going to make pasta in our apartment then head out later!
arivederchi!
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