So much more to see in Rome, but we have to move on. We took a tram to the Termini station, where internal and external trains and metro all meet. Trains go nearly everywhere in Italy, which makes it so easy to move around. Imagine if we had them in Canada, or the US, how much easier travelling would be! The train took us to a small city, where we got on a bus taking us to Montepulciano. This extra step is probably what makes the town a bit of a hidden gem. The medieval town (built in the 6th century) is set in the heart of the Tuscan countryside,…

I could have gone to see the pope in St. Peter’s Square but I wasn’t up for that. Instead, I took the metro train to the Trevi Fountain station. I had seen the fountain briefly on my Vespa tour, but just wanted to see it again on this beautiful sunny day. I decided to follow the crowds from the station, and ended up at the Spanish steps instead. The Spanish steps aren’t Spanish, they just used to lead to the Spanish embassy. At the base of the steps is the Via Condosi, a famous street full of mostly high-end shops. Some of the shops had lineups outside due to covid…

Getting There I arrived in Rome around 9 am with very little sleep – the flight attendants woke us up for breakfast around the time I would normally have been going to bed due to the 8 hour time difference. There is a regular train from the Rome Fiumicino airport to the Termini station in the city centre where my hotel is located. There you can connect to the metro, then you would walk about 15 minutes to the hotel – that might have been too much for me on no sleep! But knowing now what I didn’t know then, it would have been fairly easy and cheaper of course.…