Day 7 and 8: Colosseum, The Forum and another Country
First of all, I would like to apologize for not having an update the past few days. There was a quite a problem with Internet access. Day 7; We sang goodbye to Sorrento and said hello to Rome. We took about a four hour bus ride from the south of Italy to the central section of Italy (Roma). Our bus driver Walter and tour Director Oshry first took us to a self service lunch at a wonderful train station. The food was quite delicious. Then we continued our trip to the Colosseum and Forum where we met our local guide Jerry. Jerry is from Venezuela, Jersey and Rome. He is quite a colorful guide and really kept the students engaged throughout our tours of the Colosseum, Forum and Vatican City (Did you know that Vatican City is a foreign Country??) The ruins of the Ancient Roman empire can be quite overwhelming, especially when you don't have a lot of time to tour these wonderful places. Our guide Jerry did a excellent job explaining both and was very detailed with every explanation of the ruins. After our tour of Ancient Rome, we jumped on a bus ride to Gladiator School. Day 8: We visited the Vatican, this was not my first time to this great country, but each time you visit you see something new. On this trip our wonderful local guide Jerry, took us to the Pope mobile garage. (Please check out our pictures at University Prep School Study Abroad on facebook. The garage showed us over 500 years of how the Pope traveled in style around the world. It was amazing to see. The walk through the Vatican Museum is always an adventure. They pack way too many people in and it is very hard to walk around, but the art is something you just can't explain, absolutely priceless. During our visit through the Museum you see the Sistine chapel, St. Peter's and like I said above the most amazing art in the world. After the Vatican, we did a little shopping, some of us rode a Ferrari (Mr. Holley) and we had a wonderful final lunch in Rome. Once we left the area of the Vatican in Rome, We looked at a beautiful Piazza, the name has slipped my mind at this moment, we saw the Spanish Steps and we did more shopping. I have to say out of all of the groups that I have taken abroad, this group shopped by far the most. Our final dinner in Rome, we visited the medieval area of Treverstae. We had a wonderful final dinner and then more shopping. Our final night gave us quite a twist because once we walked all the way to our bus stop, we realized we were missing two of our principals. Oshry jumped into action and went back to find them with no success. Eventually, we found them back at the hotel. From what I heard they had an adventure of their own, but I will let them explain. Day 9: Once we arrived at the airport, we found out that our flights back home were cancelled because of a power outage in Amsterdam. Again, our rock star Tour director jumped into action with some help from this blogger. We were able to get everyone on separate flight back home, Two through Philadelphia and one through Chicago. Everyone returned home safely after almost 24 hours of travel. This is the last blog for our Italy trip, please for the Peru trip staring this Sunday. Also Like our facebook page at: University Prep School Study Abroad Those who traveled with us please give our page a review. Our picture exchange will be in early May. Please put together your ten favorite pictures and make up to 30 copies of each. Italy 2015 signing off!!!
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