So, it's time to take stock. The trip was planned in advance and could be postponed for two reasons beyond our control. Why is Italy, not Austria or the Czech Republic, as we used to? . And in general, are not spared, but on the fourth day of his stay in Rome already had to think about what to do. Now, in order.
Visas and training. Thanks to the local consulate visa took less than a week. So all the Italian Schengen costs 45 euros per person, but the travel agency has done for 80. But no queues and questionnaires, we just gave a passport and received it back with a glued- week visa.
Next was a choice for hotels. Can be ordered on the booking, but eventually did, too, through the travel agency and stood it's cheaper than booking the same hotel. About the hotel itself later, but at the time of embarrassed just paid internet - I decided that I 'll settle this point, sometime later,. Hotels with Free Wi- FEMA and the same price was substantially lower than in the classroom and away from the center. It was a goal - to take the hotel at 100 euros - not more than. As a result, all the cost of 106 per day.
320 - a good, comfortable and convenient flight.
Rome decided to get to the budget by Wizzair from Gdansk. A ticket from Gdansk to Rome for two and back ( next week ) cost 150 euros 15 euros per item of baggage. Yes, this is the case. 165 euros per round-trip. And this when booking four days prior to departure. If booked for two months, they say, could fly for 100-120 euros for two. On the flight to the budget lines - later. Pleasure is not the most pleasant, but when compared with Aeroflot or UTAIR, the difference is small and consists mainly in the details prior to departure.
We still went to rest, and not to suffer, why pay for shuttle service to and from both airports. It's a real robbery. Transfer in Gdansk rose to 35 euros per person one way, t. e. only 140 euros. Transfer from Fiumicino to Rome - 30 euros per person one way or 120 Euros total. Total cost of transfer, both in flight and a half times more. The alternative - to reach by train, but it's a hemorrhoid, and with the recent departures and arrivals - and even a significant loss of time. And so we just brought to the aircraft and taken immediately after arrival.
Tangerine trees on the street in Rome - the norm. But the mandarins tasteless.
Total with all insurance, tickets, hotel and other garbage we all fell about 1. 5k euro for 8 days and 7 nights. We left on Sunday at 12 pm and returned the following Monday at 6 am.
The road and flight. In Poland you can bring no more than two packs of cigarettes and a bubble of alcohol. We had 8 people with the planet carrier and one of the tourists decided to buy whitefish in Italy is too expensive and took a carton of cigarettes with. We are frankly lucky - tamozhennitsa simply divided the number of packets at all, and missed, having written off a slight violation of (2. 5 packs per person instead of two ). So in the way we did zhralnuyu stop, where I bought new sunglasses forgotten in a hurry, instead of more expensive homes and high-quality and normally ate - made up drinks in the house threw at the airport.
Tourists listen to your guide on the radio: earphone in the ear and the sack. Often, one group can stretch for 50-100 meters - without in any way radios, they give out before the tour.
Gdansk airport - a small and consists of a single terminal. The second construct (apparently for the UEFA Cup ), but there is only a skeleton of steel beams. So sign up and landing on a budget flight is no different from the usual. In addition, there is parking for aircraft Wizzair, so that the crash occurred right on schedule. We are quietly logged in, baggage and passed the examination held. By the way, in terms of luggage, we clearly have hurried - the majority of passengers dragged as hand luggage bags and more of our. The airport has a special counter for measuring the size of hand luggage for airlines flying. The answer - a third hand luggage would not have gone into the compartments of the rack. T. e. If you were registered and the girl gave you a boarding pass, you will be put on a plane, even with a suitcase -sized year-old child.
The terminal for budget lines in Fiumicino - just a shed with a pair of digital signage and one queue for all. But after inspecting the top of all decent, but our return flight is still delayed - for half an hour.
The flight itself does not particularly noteworthy except for the lack of space for the knees - pose Break ( head in her lap during an emergency landing ), it is impossible to accept - and the lack of free food. But I've never been adept at such a power, so all went well, no one try to pin and does not impose. The aircraft new, nice, clean, staff courteous, bilingual. However landing was walking to the plane, but for Gdansk - is the norm. The landing was a bus. Luggage waited a long time, but within tolerance. Transfer to Fiumicino surprised by the fact that I have selected a suitcase and dragged it to the car itself. Along the way, uncle showed local attractions and profuse in gratitude for the delivery to the hotel. The reverse transfer ( other driver) was just as polite. But the Russian shuttle in both directions was hamovatye ( although also drove two ). The second carrier is also pressed separately bucks for what razvez home. The alternative was to get six in the morning itself.
In Rome, a lot of visitors with children, the disabled, infirm and m. Dr..
This, incidentally, the Russian in the picture.
hotel. Bad hotel in Rome - this is how I understood, the rate of. So nothing much waiting. For 100 euros you get that in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad, or receive for a. 5 2tys. rubles. In fact, at Rome hotels are divided into ' up to 150 euros ' and after. Inside the hotel price categories are divided into ' closer to the center ' or ' close to the metro station ' for herachit peshochkom have a lot and closer to the desired point rental - so you better. We had a middle option - 30 meters from the entrance to the subway, with a supermarket in the same building but on the basic points of Rome in 3-6 stops. Also Coliseum all key presses close to the red line, and we lived in the blue, so that 5 days out of 7 we went with a change.
All are quite simply. the bed of the two beds and shifted pictures on the walls. but nice and clean.
If you are traveling to Rome, to measure its distance from the center of proximity to Termini Station. What you get closer, the less spending on the road, both temporal and monetary. Ideal - live near the red line - this is a good shopping, and the Vatican, and Pinch Park and Villa Borghese. The blue line - it's only a matter of fact Coliseum, everything else is much interest does not cause.
We stayed at Hotel San Giusto. This hotel belongs to the group Leonardi specializes in budget hotels in Rome. There is something in common with the network in St. Petersburg Rinaldi, but the class is clearly higher.
Administrators speak two languages , maids, and the waitress - only in Italian. All friendly, nothing was missing from the room, but we suspect that our maid picking things. Linen and towels changed every day - it is rare for Italy. But the number is small, the flank of junk, fixing a torn soul, and kept on snot, dirty walls, the furniture is old, like a double bed, but is composed of two spring beds with thick mattresses. However, the clean, hot water constantly, condos, shower, bidet, boost, built-in hair dryer. Television showed only 7 channels, of which only one - CNN, the rest - the Italian RAI (1-2-3) and MediaSet (5-6-7). But we had a netbook, tablet, and 20 hours of different series. Sorry did not think to take an adapter HDMI, to broadcast the image on the TV.
Colosseum - a mandatory item in the program visit to Rome.
Breakfast at the hotel were miserable: bad coffee, sliced , boiled eggs, muffins, cereal, milk, fruits and juices. nothing hot. But we were lucky that it was cutting meat - I 've read, most hotels are limited to only fruits and flakes. Sam Breakfast is from 7 to 10. Tea is not served, but you can ask for a. About tea in Italy will be a different story. It was strange that coffee is the shit. In general, in Italy, preparing good coffee everywhere. Our espresso after they seem ordinary American.
The key is in Rome decided to pass at the reception. But two days we have not yet passed, but still fell a maid in the room. Then they began to take. No plates 'is not clean ' and ' not to go ' in this hotel was not. But you can turn the lock on one turn, then put forward a small red tab on the other hand - this is, apparently, was the signal 'does not include '.
Inside the Colosseum looks even more impressive.
The main plus of this hotel - a supermarket in the same building and the underground station at the entrance. However, the supermarket, I found only on the third day, when I saw him coming from people with packages - so obscure a sign. Generally, in Rome, grocery stores are extremely rare. You can walk a few blocks, and did not find any, even the smallest. There are neighborhoods where there are no public places - no cafes, no shops or kiosks. Just home -home -home. So that such proximity to the hotel shop - a definite plus. And the subway - just awesome, plus.
Museums in Rome. Of course, we went to Italy, did not sleep more and do not tan to black, but still burned. We were set to active rest - namely, to see the city. I must say - two days at a good pace on Rome is enough. In the flaccid and detailed enough for three, maximum four.
The Vatican, female, beautiful.
but crowded. Tourists are essentially single file - there is little seen, and very noisy.
Art museums skulputrnye - lousy. A small exhibition, just a few high-end products, and the rest - until the pile. If you're lucky - go to the Villa Borghese, and the other art museums to replace architectural or walk around the local churches - free entrance to all churches. Of architectural should definitely visit the Colosseum, the Vatican, Attica (ruins near the Coliseum ), Capitol, Trevi Fountain de, Pantheon. The latter two are available for free. Go to the Spanish Steps, look at the fountains ( they're everywhere ). Go to the park must Pinch ( Flaminio station and go upstairs ). This park passes continuously into the park of Villa Borghese, there is the Zoo.
Courtyard within the Vatican, where allowed by invitation only. We are not allowed.
To visit the museum you can buy a Roma pass. This is a special card for tourists. Costs 25 euros per person for three days and sold at any kiosk at par. Two of the museum you visit it for free, others - at a discount. In addition, you are using it as a travel in the subway and on buses. T. e. two museums completely pay off the card and you're driving for free. The day can be run over 2 to 10 euros - a trip on the subway will cost you 1 euro.
It's not stucco, is the volume painting. Here is a 3D medieval ( clickable ).
About the metro. Metro in Rome consists of two branches - the red and blue. They bind to the middle of the Termini station, it - the main w / the city railway station. Entrance to the metro costs 1 euro for 75 minutes, but in fact this is a one-off ticket.
Main feature underground - if you do not have time to enter on your ticket, you have not come in, even if you travel. T. e. If you put a Roma pass to the circle, but for some reason were not included, it did not even enter until they leave - which for obvious reasons, and not have to buy a one-time ticket to enter the subway. The first day I got so. Blunted, and had not had time to buy a ticket evrovy to join his wife on the other side of the barrier.
In the subway walls - from the conventional concrete. But cheap and inexpensive in the city budget.
Metro is not very striking beauty - the most common plant, concrete without unnecessary adornments. Metro is buried deep, in places and at all exits to the surface. Trains can be divided into the old, painted graffiti and some of the cars, and newer, broad, with a through pass through all the cars - t. e. goes essentially one big car. On the line of old and new trains alternate. The interval between trains from 1 to 8 minutes, longer at weekends, on weekdays - often. Crowding is, but understand - when it - it is difficult. Once we got into a stampede at 10 am, the other - about five in the evening. I understand that the crowd is mainly related to delays on the line. On the last day we were waiting for a train one time for about fifteen minutes.
In the metro, along with the usual descent is going down the stairs and the elevator. Each ladder can often see employees underground with shoulder sling - it's something like a large chevron. Generally speaking without thinking is difficult to distinguish the police from the museum's security guard or employee of Subway - all wear uniforms. In addition, these carabineers also several options for the form.
The main tourist helpers - police. They were in Rome on every corner.
About to eat. Everything they write about the great Italian food, but apparently, we 're out of luck. In an expensive restaurant, we did not go as well in the segment of ' up to 10 euros on the snout ... The basis of the consumption in the Italian dishes bystropite are based on test. This panini - Butera rolls of soft flesh, but the hard crust that is baked through and have a roster in the pressure and filling of cheese and all sorts of different garbage: cutting, mushroom and vegetables. Pizza - primarily offered slices: that is, pre- fried pizza with different toppings and a large rectangle. Then it is put on the shelf, where the barista cuts by eye slice and heats it in the oven or microwave. All greeted us pizza was cooked on a thin crust, in addition to the crunch uzharennom. Treats hard pulls on the top three on the five-point scale - there may be, but the fun does not get. There are many more which offer sandwiches with fillings. This is a big triangles of toast ( see this bread - now multiply the square and cut into two triangles on the diagonal). Filling the same as in the panini, but the bread is soft. These toasts are prepared in advance and are covered with large stacks of towels. You poke a finger and choose the desired. Everything is edible, but it remains Butera Butera.
mobile shops. They are many around Rome. Be careful - the price much too high.
The famous pasta with a little common. T. e. find a ready-made pasta in Rome is quite difficult. That is such garbage. Most often, it is a pretty cool little macaroni -like pasta from the movies. Merzota and only. I would not take the pasta in eatery.
Romans eat potatoes, meat and vegetables and much more, but it must be sought. The finished product has high fat content and plenty of spices. Heartburn and gastritis, you almost guaranteed. Spare you the details, but the Italian diet was given to my sensitive stomach is not easy. And it became clear the constant use of wine for a meal. Without skisleniya such food to digest it very difficult to. Wine is worth it, even in a cafe just two to three times more expensive than coffee, but it is comparable stores for the price of beer.
The main drink in bystropite - coffee. His many and different, prepare a well-. Tea - Tea bags only one or two species, the sugar is almost always of two kinds - brown and white, lemon tea to give a default. Drinks and beer - from bottles. Bottling lemonade met only at McDonalds and a couple of large stalls.
Chlenomakarony ( clickable ).
Normalize your diet you can live in a house. Do not expect is a wide variety of. Italian cuisine is very specific and is configured to use an industrial scale pasta, panini and coffee. T. e. there are many things to prepare these dishes, the rest is represented by a single specimen. For example, the shelves can lie and pasta items 50-60 only 2-3 seats allocated for cereals (rice, peas ), and one manufacturer. Dohera tomato paste ( 30 species, no less) and there is little ketchup and mayonnaise. Approximately 60-70 types of wine, and only 3.10 - Beer. Few options for juice, but many - of ordinary water and lemonade. And so on. The same parmesan can be found in various forms of cutting and grated 10-15, although it seems a kind of cheese.
On Prices. A box of strawberries - 1. 65-3 euros. A box of small tomatoes - 1. 05.03 EUR. Wine - 1 euro for 0. 75l young wine, 4 euros for the wine age. Beer - 1 euro for 0. 33l. Water - 1. 3 euros for 6 bottles at 0. 5L. Pasta - the euro for a pack. Sliced cheese or sausage in the middle of 2 euros per pack. Juice - 2 euros per liter. Every zakus in banks 1. 5 euros for a small jar. The average check at the supermarket havchik - 20 euros. So it goes, probably even cheaper than we have in Russia.
Prices at the local grocery market.
In bystropite - coffee from 0. € 8 to 2. 5. Tea - 1. 2 euro. Beer and wine - 2-3 euros for a glass or bottle of 0. 33l. Panini, toasted sandwiches and pizza - from 2 to 4 euros a portion of. Full pizza - 8-15 euros, but it does not pound pizza, but quite normal-sized (33 - 40cm ). Normal havchik like fries with sausages - from 8 euro portion of. Soups in general have never seen anywhere, even on the menu. The average check for a snack - 10 euros for two. But it is possible to disperse up to 20 euros. And rest assured - if you have more than 3 units, you shortchange. For example, we cheated on the corny coffee in one sort of decent cafes and expensive. Pizza pie and my coffee was considered right, and wife of coffee multiplied into two. So we just left a cafe without a tip.
tips. No one is asking. Never paid. And he saw that someone gave a tip. Apparently, this is of default or included in a check, or simply not accepted.
alcohol. This is a real issue in Italy. Beer - very little. And I thought his local little drunk, but I was wrong. Just here a culture of consumption. Beer drinking only bottled, just handing the glass to the bottle. There zakus, snacks. I witnessed how the Romans actively take beer in the supermarket, and it is a local manufacturer - Peroni. To my taste the beer in Italy, the bad. At about the level of the Baltic Sea. Of the non-local is Heineken. From local and nePeroni present only 3-4 varieties, and only in major retail outlets. Sam Peroni is divided into four varieties and cider. Strong actively advertised in the subway, by the way. The basic format of the sale - 0. 33 and 3x0 packs. 33 and 6h0. 33. There are several types of 0. 66 and 1. 0n.
What else to drive in Italy? .
However, the main feature of Italy - Wine. It has almost everything - local. Divided on the principle of it is not dry, semisweet, and for distillery. After his drinking a glass of wine residue remains, where pieces of skin and discern pulp of grapes. The taste - bitter to accustomed to the French and German export species, but still gets used. Prices are different, but the age- long wine storage starts at 4 euros. Five - six years of wine - about 7-10 euros per bottle. There are some not very clear to me on the types of wine 15-30 euros in t. h. and the young, but this seems to be for lovers. Italians themselves most of all take the wine in the segment 3-4 euros for a bubble. The average strength of wine - 12-14%. Shibaev quickly, the consequences of the morning, even after two bottles - no.
At the same time thinking that everything here is natural and non-GMO - is profoundly mistaken. Juices are here - a mixture of chemicals, the most juice - 20-30 percent. And many other products represent a mixture of obscure. For example, ham more like toilet paper with pieces of meat. About the mortadella and remember scary. Meat, fruit, etc. are best consumed in its original form.
Beggars, street vendors and thieves. One of the important sights of Italy, not only in Rome - is its street life. Marginal non-black world is represented only in the segment of the poor. Italian whites are the poor - it's great originals. They can be dressed better than you do, wear expensive watches, but at the same time, to sit on the sidelines with a carton, which has a few coins. At first you think that this banter, but when meeting people every day on this site, you understand that this work.
Italian homeless. This rarity, as it turned.
Everything else is engaged in black, which are divided into a black natives of South Africa, and less black representatives in North Africa and Arabia. Most black trade jewelry, sunglasses and fake handbags ( Prada, Dolce and Gabbana ). Just stand on the street near the tray and wait for buyers. Very rare black stick and impose. The most common are stupid, guarding their goods.
Only the top brand handbags! .
Less than black ( the Egyptians? Indians? I xs. ) They rule much larger segment of the tourist money vymanivaniya. They sell a lot of all but the monotonous garbage. In our case it was the gel beads, which are spread out on impact, and then again take the form of DEFAULT, umbrellas usual ( when I was a rain), umbrellas (when began to bake ), air bubbles.
Looks sell any of the products as follows: on the street is black with 5-30 pieces essentially the same product. Most just worth it, but somehow a part of trying to draw attention. No aggressive selling. Go tell that to impose some street vendors ssut. Always where there are traders - hanging out near a pair of Carabinieri.
The collapse of the park Pinch. All along the rise - stalls with the same product.
Of the more imposing is the focus of evil with roses. Black dick is coming to you and your lady sticks two roses. In the west, by the way, there is no problem - two or three roses to give. In general, it gives the type, and then starts whining that give money. But you can take and send Forums. Before our eyes a couple of tourists and made. Chubrik persya her thirty meters and then left behind. But we are honest and just simply say ' know '.
Also, it is engaged in the budget slabochernye trade. In the morning they are arranged on almost every street (and not just in the center) from all trays of Chinese garbage. Price tag on any thing the same. T. e. 20-100 is a tray with names and hanging sign 'all of 2 euro '. Sometimes there are a few tables ' for 1 euro ', ' to 3 euros '. Put rack with clothes on hangers ' any thing for 5 euro '. The main buyer of these pillars - the local. There are also more complex rack with suitcases and shoes, but they are a little less.
Do you think that old lady? . We have seen how such an old woman goes somewhere away from the Coliseum: A young Arab woman cheerful.
Also slabochernye hold a street trading avtokioskov. This, apparently, the top career, because about half of the Italians sit still avtokioskov. Avtokioski the same type and same range of. Typically serve one or two people. The main range of products - ice cream, drinks, sometimes Butera. Prices are too high, at least twice. I do not advise buying something in the stands, if you want to save money. Look for a cafe in the building or shop. But the quality in both places is the same - check for yourself. The only difference in price.
Black beggars always have some kind of deformity. I saw a man with no feet, a man with burns all the upper body. But a separate issue - broken foot. This chastovstrechayuscheesya and obviously deliberately made ugly. Wrings foot forward, so that the fingers are almost touching the front of the tibia. It looks creepy.
The girl on the penis (near the Coliseum ).
Once caught in the subway accordionist slabocherny. He played two tunes, and went to ask for money. I normally do not serve, but then found the man for 30 cents. For his work - not sorry.
thieves have. To experience for yourself. He rode the subway and suddenly feel your fingers in your back pocket. Rushed back - is a gypsy girl in decent clothes and pretends to do with affairs. She just walked away and went down to the next stop, and we looked at each other and with local languages potsokali matrons. Carry things in the inner or front pockets, will be less problems and worries.
population. Very friendly. There was never any problem or hassles. Neither the Italians nor the black. Everybody is trying to help, to apologize three times, even if you're to blame. Barely entered the store, do you hear ' bonzhorno ', leaving a ' Gracio ' and ' Chiao '. But it was never the reason you shortchange or roll through nehily. Or vparit something beyond the required. Know how fast and hard to refuse. This is not to take offense and the degree of benevolence is not reduced.
The biggest culture shock: a woman in boots in 25 degree heat. And you have not seen women in Alaska and sweaters!.
It is worth noting pohuistichnoe related to traffic. If you do not have cars - people are. Sometimes it goes to red and go when the machine. However, no traffic jams, collisions, crashes it does not create. Maximum, the driver shouts something in the hearts and pedestrian apologizes. And all.
To communicate is enough to know 100 English words and have a hand for gestures. The Italians for the most part sucks speak English, Russian, no one knows. The conversation - is a wild fucking with 3-5 words to show something with your finger, and ' Nice! ' . Wild pandemonium linguistic hell, but all eventually understand. And yet, knowing English, you can do more, faster and easier. About an Italian, I just keep quiet. For example, book a ticket at the railway / train station or stupid to read the information in a museum for tourists. In Russian there is not nobody nowhere writes, although Russian in Rome dofiga.
roads. Italians go mainly to the compacts and scooters. Scooter so much and they are so different that dizzy. Plugs have never seen, but at peak times traffic is slowed down significantly and is more like jumping from the intersection to the intersection. A lot of smarts - local peasants did not manage zapadlo nedomerkami. All roads are used as parking for cars and scooters. Uncommon situation where the remains only a narrow strip of travel: generally narrow streets of Rome, and the sidewalks are even less.
Scooter overtake everyone and everything, being driven at 40-50 km / h, even in a crowd of tourists. ,. they only have time to disperse.
Expensive cars and big enough. Some regularities in the use of cars in the class did not notice. Behind the wheel scooter can be quite a respectable manager in an expensive suit, and driving in the X5 mamashka kezhuel - clothes. They say that you can easily take a scooter or a car, but I never driver, because not even interested in.
Cyclists, by the way, there is little. Approximately how lovers ride segveyah. In general, and those found in other parks. Ride around the city of Rome hard - the city is on the hills and elevation changes is through the city.
This is a modest parking. There are places where it's difficult to pass.
Peshedralka. Rome, like Peter in the part that does not live in relation to the subway, as Moscow. Here everything is decided by the street. You can exit the subway and striding 2-3 kilometers to the desired point, and even more. Bring only the proven and trampled shoes. We broke the leg on the first day. I had to buy a bowl and salt for stripping.
Try the first day to get to the tour - sitibas. It starts from the square Chinkvichenta that right in front of Termini Station. In the Russian translation is sitibase. Stuck the headphones, choose the program and see - Memorize. It is worth sitibas - 20 euros per person. Tour lasts two o'clock.
Here is the sitibas. At each location two headphone jacks.
Also, remember that you can take pictures everywhere: museums, churches, shops. Only occasionally are prohibited from using the flash. Bring a good camera down - this guarantees you a set of wallpapers for a very long time. Landscapes in Rome - fucking. But near all looks a lot worse.
Shopping. We did not go to the Outlets - Trade shops with cheap clothes last season, and dangled the usual boutiques. The overall conclusion - a huge selection for all tastes, all fresh and cheaper than last year we issued over the last season.
My personal conclusion - men's clothes pricey. Women's - cheaper by 20-50%. We bought for 110 euros a suit that would cost in Kaliningrad on the 6- 7tys. My wife saw her purse furla from 85 to 150 Euros. And so on. We were in Milan and Rome, but also good for women who want inexpensive poshopitsya. It is possible to find many good things and fashion for 30-100 euros, standing in Russia and a half to two times more expensive, and often simply absent. The main shops are on the Via del Corso, Via del Babuino, Via di Renzo Colo. To find them - type in google 'outlet rome italy'. Where more red dots - there and boutiques.
The famous wolf. In fact - it is quite small.
Shops for equipment I did not see. They are, but obviously not at the center. IPhone 4 is 600 euros in Rome. Italians with tablets, I do not see. I did not see and tourists with tablets. In general, I was the only tourist in Rome who publicly yuzal tablet. With the beech people meet, but not very often. For good reason.
Free Wi-Fi. This is in Rome - a myth. Almost nowhere, even Macs. In the three Macs can not connect to hotspots. When we went to sea, we found several cafes with free vayfay. In Rome the same - such a service is mainly available only in hotels. It is easy to check by typing an appropriate request to google.
On every roof garden or terrace resettled. It looks nice.
The hotel problem is solved in another way. I bought a card that gave 8:00 Internet for 10 euros. Internet is very fast and 10 hours was enough for me for a week to read your mail and use search. But at the same time maintained a connection with only one device. So the tablet yuzalsya only as a video player and a book. And on the third day he stupidly stayed at the hotel before the end of the holidays, making the company the netbook.
How to find the nearest supermarket. This is important. Dial in Google.
supermercato. Rather than supermarket. You will definitely need at least one within walking distance of the hotel. Booze is sold in local stores under the name Tabaccini. But it is cheaper to buy in the supermarket.
A typical intersection - a bunch of streets, isolated, old square house.
telephony. Roaming is expensive, coming through a megaphone - 89 rubles per minute. So I went and bought a card from a local operator Wind. Call to Russia - 0. 26 euro. You pay 15 euros, on account of - € 5. I have not even been able to spend it, and - there was no reason. Internet via a local SIM card is not yuzal.
In general, short calls and the use of Google MAPS week I squander about fifteen hundred rubles in MegaFon. Personal phone I could not turn off - customers also worry. And we got lost a couple of times - had to go to Google MAPS.
In the photo once the four trips: Students meet with a group and across two groups. Tourists in the center - very, very much.
What to take with. What we buy as we had. Sunscreen (12 euros), as the first two days were burned to burn - the sun then evil. Basin and salt stripping down ( even a dozen ), but could just take the shoes raznoshennuyu. You also need a kettle - do not buy it here, and tea in the room just want to. Think of a hair dryer. Maybe it will need an adapter for outlets - we had a double (for wide and narrow forks ), but you may not get lucky. Go with a Swiss army knife - I do not know how I would have done without her viktorinoks - there is a corkscrew, and a knife and scissors. But that's only if you fly with baggage - carry knives and liquids on planes in carry-on baggage can not be.
Take two pairs of shoes, if one - not too easy. Always something warm, the weather is treacherous here - it was warm all week, and flew away with a strong cold snap. In addition, there is frost in the morning. In the evening, too cool. I was okay - I'm patient, and his wife sometimes had hardly. In the sun - 25 degrees, and in the shadows - 15 and the wind. Shade where there are many, simply go to a massive stone building.
That's just for the sake of this you can go to Rome. Landscapes - Bet on almost every desktop.
Take the suitcase, which will go to fill only half or less. 100% of you will take away twice as much as you bring. We had to buy a new suitcase and hand luggage on to increase the weight by half.
Bring tablets. Of headache. from gastritis. of allergy. I ate all week omez not to turn up at night because of stomach pains due to the wonderful local food. Buy something local - is unsafe and difficult to. In Italy their drugs - called in another way, how do they work - it is not clear. Do not bring the case to the use of health insurance.
Schedule of life. Italy - not Russia. Then life begins at 8 am and ends at 9 pm. Even after seven working hard to find something. After nine - and people on the street is almost no. Metro also after 9 pm is not working. In some cities have siesta. This means that in 13. 00 Store closed and open only in 16-17 hours. So we went to buy cute bags in Civitavecchia. We looked, and went further - are back, and there is a siesta. And left.
Another mandatory item - the Trevi Fountain de. Always a crowd of close. But it is nice!.
toilets. This is a problem. The Vatican is particularly. Pay toilets are well marked, but there are euro entrance fee, and free map will be very shock. McDonalds rescued - but not all Macs have the Roman tremors. Sometimes it was possible to find a cafe with a push - it 's not that rare, but uncommon.
other cities. Rome is convenient because it is in the center of Italy and you can quickly get to other cities by train. Come to the Termini ticket buyers in an automatic counter and stomping on a train. 10 euros and you are in Naples in three hours. Walked through the ruins of Pompeii and back to. You can go to any city, and spend the night in Rome. However, we restricted ourselves to the seaside Civitavecchia (4. € 5 one way per person). My advice - just plan a trip to visit other towns. It's quick, inexpensive and entertaining. On the day of the city.
Chivittavekkya - sea view - why not our Svetlogorsk!.
No, not ours, then plyazhik scratchy!.
money. Cards are accepted almost everywhere. Still, the Italians prefer cash. In addition, on the border you will be asked to show 200 euros in cash per person - what you have to spend. The small bar apparatus for receiving no card. Street trade - also in cash. Just plan on how many carry with it the cache. Please note that the hotel you will have to pay the departure tax - 2 euros per person per night. This is a separate payment to the hotel.
Nepugannaya gull.
summary. Rome - the city to the compulsory attendance. Funky architecture that makes one forget about St. Petersburg's buildings at all. Breath of history at every turn. Shopping, fine wine, good coffee.
And at the same time, remember alien rossiyaninu diet, high cost of entertainment for tourists and the language barrier. However, all this insurmountable difficulties. And the Italians - the people are friendly, Blacks, too, should not be afraid - they are quiet under the supervision of the Police. Oh, and remember the differences in mentality and schedule of life, then everything will be alright.
I think that could save a few hundred euros, but the holidays are holidays. Based on my notes, it is possible to pave the economical route and plenty of rags Natarov and wine - there is a cheap and high quality. Take a trip to Italy at least once. Sorry unlikely to.
Here is a typical street in the center - Via del Babuino. Narrow sidewalk and parking on both sides, leaving little room for the two patrol cars at once.
If you have any questions - write in comments, I'm there and I will answer. According to the grandmother took all of about 2. 2.5. 7k euros to the road, accommodation, museums and shopping. This is for two.
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