Italian Vacations

One summer my friend and I decided to go to Italyright choice. Every day we took a train that delivered
during the summer holidays. Having read informationus to the heart of Rome, to Piazza del Popolo. After
about the tours we decided to do without travelhustle capital our spacious house surrounded by the
agencies. We didn't want to stick to strict programs, toforest was a rare gift. Fresh air and absolute silence,
be in the crowds of tourists, losing lots of possibilities tointerrupted only by the songs of the birds, breathtaking
get acquainted with the country more intimately so weviews, hospitable hosts, comfortable living conditions,
started to think over our trip.tasty and hearty breakfasts - these are our
We managed to do quite well: six days in Rome withimpressions of "Selva Grande". Besides we were very
a day-long journey to Florence. Italy took us by storm!lucky that our mistress was Russian. She gave us a
We'll try to go there again! We spent less than welot of pieces of advice that were of great use. She
expected. Of course, we spend nerves and time totold us what transport to choose, where to go, etc.
arrange the trip, but Italy was worth that! Of course IThe last pain in the neck was a certificate about our
was afraid lest something goes wrong, I wasincome. Luckily one must not necessarily be a
especially anxious about the visa. But everything wentmillionaire to be allowed to enter the country so we
quite smoothly. So here's my story)))didn't have any problems.
The most difficult was to get a visa without anDon't be afraid to arrange the trip by yourself. It's not
invitation. In the Italian consulate one must hand in thedifficult! Even the visa question is easily settled. All you
documents confirming the hotel reservation and also aneed is time (and nerves;-)))
certificate about your income.Italy shook me, I'll certainly write about it next time. The
Then we had to solve the ticket question. Airlines oftenonly thing I'll say right now is that we really enjoyed to
sell discount tickets. We bought ours good in advance.travel by ourselves. We walked with a map and a
The next step was to find and book a hotel. Weguide-book wherever we wanted. And we met our
searched the Internet and particularly liked the sitefellow countrymen just two or three times. So if you're
There are many lodgings in Rome, from bigalso planning such a "single" trip, don't forget to take a
world-famous hotels to small private boarding housesRussian-Italian phrasebook as people in Italy are not
(Bed and breakfast), so everyone can find somethingthat fond of English preferring to speak only in their
to his or her liking. We decided to book a lodging innative tongue.
thirty km away from Rome. And in fact that was the