[Level 1 GA] I'm going to Rome!

Enjoy your trip to Rome we will wait your return and keep your place warm. 😉

Enjoy the trip. Italy is a so nice country
😍 And the good 👌😋

I'm from Rome :D

A few culinary survival tips :

• Don't ask for cappuccino after lunch/dinner, it's weird, coffee is fine
• No pizza with pineapple! D:
• Unless you're in the touristic center we don't know what the hell Alfredo pasta is, we call it "burro e parmigiano" (butter and parmesan) and it's seen as a poor dish you make when you're out of food in the kitchen
• If you ask for pepperoni pizza you will get a pizza with capsicum peppers, for a pizza with spicy salame ask for a "diavola"
• tips in restaurants are often small, like 1 or 2 euro/person if you feel like it

That's all I can think of right now ^^

I've been in Rome once. Don't spend much time with popular tourist attraction — there are a lot, A LOT of tourists, I haven't seen such tourists crowds in no other city. But I was there in September, so in February it should be better. Go to a walk, without navigator in your phone and get lost on beautiful streets for a while. Walk in every church on your path, despite how religious you are. They are all magnificent and different.
And congrats for your first Europe trip!

Check out the Sistine Chapel! (If you want to) please post a follow up thread when you come back!

will you wreck havoc and destruction, rape their women, steal and torch ?

I could rant about Italy/Italians for ever but instead I will just wish you a safe and pleasant trip! ^^

The metro is the quickest way to reach places around, but be careful about pickpocketers. Lots of tourists lose their stuff and the police will just shrug because most pickpocketers are underage and can't arrest them.

All roads lead to Rome.

Have a great trip and enjoy your weekend :D thank you

Happy bump!

Haven't been to italy for over 13 years now (it was a school trip). Lots of walking around to see the sights. Back when I was a lot more fit and healthy so climbing up a volcano in blistering heat was actually simple for me.
Nice looking place, some great food and, luckily, enough people spoke english to make everything easy. Since we didn't even start learning italian until a couple of years afterwards. You'd think giving us some basic lessons prior would of been prudent but apparently not.

Still, enjoyable place. Hope you have a great time.

Rome is a fantastic city, it's a city where you can smell and see the history of an incredible culture, something similar to another world, in another universe. I really love Rome! And I'm from Naples, Italy

Been there recently. Other than food, I was a bit disappointed.
Do not expect to see much about roman empire but about christianity history.
Yeah... they mix a lot, but what we got is left overs that the church didn´t butcher completely. (you have all the history about it and yada yada... but that was my disappointment)

It is said even the people who live in rome will never see all of it. And it is true... every few blocks you walk in the historical center you get a new fountain/monument/etc.

Heads up:

Be aware everything will have queues.
Want to go to specific places? Get a skip the line ticket. It will save you at least 30 min to 1 hour.
Want to go to places that do not have a skip the line? Arrive extra early. The difference between arriving at 7 30 am at St Peters or 9 am was almost 1 hour queue (I was lucky enough that i got there with no queue... Had the top view with only few tourists. When I got off it was infested and the waiting time was over 1 hour.

Food is awesome. Go to as many Fornos as you can endure. You should leave it tired of bread/pizza/etc.
Coffee is awesome and the cheapest I ve seen in Europe (seriously? 1 euro for a capuccino? I pay 3 pounds for a crappy one in London)

Rome is one of the cities with highest amount of tourists in the world, so you can expect people to understand basic english pretty much everywhere.

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Enjoy your trip. My only advice would be to have a few Italian phrases memorized, I know people in Milan were much friendlier when I used them then when not

wow, I'm so happy for you!! =)
I'm Northern Italian and apart from frequent flies to Sicily (where all my girlfriends' relatives live, they're quite rich and they're all there so far away from here xD) I rarely travel south of Tuscany (these weeks we're having also lots of snow here in the Appennines, and I was born on the hills!), but Italy is by far as a cultural entity the most interesting in Europe, possibly!
we'll never be a political union but culturally speaking, you could really spend weeks in every single small town, city or natural resource in the whole peninsula (and the lots of islands we have too!).. Rome is definitely one of the most beautiful cities in the world, getting there from Northern Italy isn't so easy (now we have some fast trains but they depart from the plains and the big cities, and my province doesn't even have such a train station ahah xD) so by car it's 1.30 hours to Florence and many more to Rome ahah but I'll visit Rome again in the next future for sure!
I've been there man times throughout the decades and you can really spend there how much time you have and you want, just be a little be aware of course since it's a huge city, probably it doesn't have the same problems I saw in other Italian cities like Palermo, Milan or Naples but still, be aware.. there's a lot of people there xD
I'm really really happy for the both of you!! as I said, if you've got some time in your hands you can definitely visit whatever you want.. every small town has lots of awesome things to see and to try (if you love food too you won't ever be disappointed, just always watch reviews on google or tripadvisor =P)
have a great trip!!

Have a wonderful trip! Share some pics with us while you're there/when you get back.

Travelling to Europe (twice) gave me some of the best experiences I've ever had. Enjoy!

Rime pun was fun.

Enjoy your trip

That sounds like an awesome trip! Have fun, though I'm sure you'll have a blast!

I haven't been to Italy myself, so only know it from reading about it and driving through it in ETS2. :)

On that note, I noticed you're a fellow ETS/ATS fan. I'd love to chat with you about mods sometime.

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Even those who live in Rome can not see every part of the city. So my suggestions are: don't turn the stay into a race from one point to another and avoid places with long waiting lines.

I have not been to Rome, however... I have been accused of having Roman hands ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)