Italy
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Rome Vespa tour
On my last evening before meeting my group, I had signed up for a Vintage Vespa tour. The Vespa is the iconic scooter that is symbolic of Italy. The scooter you would picture near a fountain in Rome, with a dark handsome driver. Its name means Wasp. However my driver was not a young hot guy, but an old guy who thought he was hot. Buddy, it’s not you that people are staring at, it’s your vintage Vespa! I hopped on with Orazio and he showed me ancient baths, miles of the Aurelian walls around the city up a hill to a viewpoint, a church, homeless people, and one of…
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Rome
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.…
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How to Get to Italy 2021
Why Italy? I finally made it to Italy in October of 2021! How did I get there? Here’s my story….. I had booked a trip to Chile and Argentina in April of 2020 with G Adventures, a Canadian small group adventure travel company. I’ve travelled with G Adventures many times and highly recommend their trips. I had booked flights through Air Canada (which is my only choice for international travel from Regina). Then covid came. Just a few weeks before I was to leave, G Adventures and Air Canada informed me that the trip was off. Both companies gave me credits. This made sense to me, since if travel companies…