Italy: Day 1 - Rome

June 2nd

Planning Italy as an add-on sort of trip became quite the whirlwind from the start. Max put it best “I feel like we were rushing, rushing, rushing…” and frankly he was right! It was trying to squeeze in one of the most historically dense cities into just two days… in unprecedented hot and humid days for Rome (it was reaching above 90F). Where do we begin,…

First off, we found out very quickly about how the Italians, well, run behind. Our flight was almost 2 hours late for take off, which made us believe that we would not be able to make our dinner activity. Our plan was to go eat dinner in a Roman home with meals cooked by a family! We tried to get a cab from the airport to resign to our Airbnb only to be informed that due to a national holiday (turned out to be Republic Day) there were too many road closure so the answer was simply ‘no.’ Our dinner hostess called us and demanded to speak to the driver and insisted we would make it to dinner in time! After a few heated words between our host and the taxi driver, he motioned for us to get into the taxi and drove us to our destination, luggage in hand!

From there we indulged in wine (selected by the hostess’ daughter who was a sommelier), 4 courses of homemade Italian food, and dessert wines! We talked and laughed and heard stories from the 15 other people that joined us for dinner! Max even made a cocktail for the group :) The night in essence was a foreshadowing of our time in Rome. Barely getting there in time, unexpected and delightful. 

We were able to walk to our airbnb from there, with full tummies and head in the clouds (was it the travel day or the wine?). We stayed in the MOST lovely studio that thankfully had AC. It was not even a block from Campo di Fiori. We practically collapsed right after setting 5 alarms for our 6am bike tour. So now you see where this trip is heading… 

Ciao xx