No responses yet – published on Jun, 14 2009 at 18:05 under Holiday.
I am finally back! And I am looking back to the last week smiling, but teary-eyed. It was such a great week and I simply want to stay a bit longer in Italy. :mmm2:
Everything was (nearly) perfect. The first three days we stayed in San Vincenzo at the Etruscan Coast. Our Hotel, the “La Coccinella“, was located in a very quite and nice area of the village. The personal was very forthcoming and the hotel had its own strip at the beach with sunshades and all, free for charge. The beach was by the way very clean and the water very refreshing (not too cold and not too warm, so I would say perfect).
As the hotel was located outside of the village’s center, one needed to walk twenty to thirty minutes to reach the heart of San Vincenzo with restaurants, gelaterias and shops. We found a great restaurant there in the center of the town. Their pizze were stone-baked and the best we ever had. Also the different fish dishes were very delicious and I think I will miss the great varity of them here in Tyrol.
On Wednesday we left San Vincenzo for Rome. It was not too difficult to find our hotel, Pisana Palace, at it was located a bit outside of Rome in a well known street. The hotel was renewed last year, but only parts of it. We were unfortunate and got one of the old rooms. 
It was clean and all, but still it doesn’t earn four stars imho. Very annoying were the thin walls of the room what made it impossible to overhear your neighbors… The breakfast was nevertheless very good as was the forthcoming personal and the hotel was better than a lot of others for the cheap price we paid and after all we just were there to sleep.
The city center of Rome with the old town, the St. Peter’s cathedral and the Vatican could be reached via Bus 881 that stopped directly outside the hotel. It takes twenty to thirty minutes (traffic is always awful in Rome) to get there. Its last stop, Piazza Paola, was nearly in the heart of the town. From there you could walk to the Piazza Navona (5 min), the Pantheon (10 min) or the Fontana di Trevi (20 min). The old town was absolutely amazing and it made a lot of fun to walk through it and enjoy the sights. On the secons day we wanted to visit the Forum Romanum, but we were both very disappointed to see that one needed to pay 12€ to enter it, a charge that wasn’t there two years ago. The entrance fee covers also Colosseum and Palatin, but it wasn’t able to buy the ticket for only one of the three things. :angry2: So we just looked from the outside…
It was a great holiday with a lot of fun, good meals and a lot of sun, and as I said, the week could have lasted longer. So I am sure I will visit Rome again, this time to visit the museums and maybe also the Forum Romanum, but that needs more time than only two and an half day.
NO! In my opinion it is so unpersonal on a private blog to write such things. It’s necessary for a web presentation of one’s work, but nothing I want to have on my own blog.
