Day 0

I got the idea to visit Rome like a week and a half before leaving. I have been there once, but only during the night and it was only that one night. Although, I’ve been wanting to see it in daylight somehow I always avoided it, thinking that I will visit it one day. That day has come and I had to prepare for it. We actually only had 3 days to explore Rome and there is a lot of things to visit, so I had to make a jam packed schedule in order to see everything or at least most of it.

Day 1

We arrived in Rome and due to the distance of the airport to the city centre including the traffic, we actually arrived to our Hotel around 8 o’clock. We decided to rest for a bit, and then hurriedly find a restaurant to have dinner in because we were starving. After dinner, we walked a bit around the centre and then went to sleep.

Day 2

I had a lot planned for this day. It turned out that everything was near each other and only a 20 minute walk from our hotel. We first went to the Colosseum and on the way there we saw Altare della Patria which was grandiose in its own respect and there were a lot of steps. In general, there are a lot of steps when visiting Rome’s monuments.

Then we also accidentally saw Foro di Augusto which are mainly just ruins, and that is where we bought water from one of the many guys selling them for 2 euros a bottle on the street.

Afterwards, we finally went to the Colosseum and it is just as spectacular as it looks, it offers a lot of photo opportunities, especially if you are standing in the line, but we had online reservations so we were able to cut the line. Again, a lot of steps, but definitely worth the steps, especially when you start imagining the events that occurred there in the Ancient Rome.

Forum, Palatine and the Capitoline Hill came afterwards and they were interesting in their own respect, but we didn’t spend too much time there due to the heat.

On our way back to the hotel, we visited Piazza Venezia and it was mesmerizing, right at that point I realized that Italians love HUUUGEE things (I think Trump would love it). They either go big or go home

Day 3

Today we were more prepared for the heat, I mean we had yesterday to realize just how hot and crowded Rome gets. Of course, we ate the amazing breakfast (which for me consisted of the best croissants that I ever tried) in our hotel and had coffee in the neighbouring cafe. First on the list for today were the Spanish Steps which we first walked next to and then visited a park near Villa Borghese.

We saw Piazza del Popolo from above, so we decided there was no need to actually see it up close because in my opinion it is very similar to other Piazzas in Rome. Afterwards, we walked down the Spanish Steps.

Then we headed towards the Pantheon and entered it, the building itself is beautiful and the inside is quite interesting with the roof having a hole. I came to realize that a lot of the old buildings have been built with the round roof.

Campo di Fiori was next on the list and I loved it, I love bazaars and this one had everything. Of course, I bought pants (not to mention that the pants broke that same day) and a shirt dress.