Rule 1 — never stay in the Freestyle Inn in Rome. I mentioned yesterday that the showers were cold as hell.  Today I’m going to tell you about the dirty bathrooms that made me gag and I think I actually threw up in my mouth.  They were so small, cramped, humid and dirty you would have thought you were in a 3rd world country. I have no idea who they paid to get their rating so high on HostelWorld.com, but they did a good job fleecing us that night’s room adn board!

Luckily we moved to a new hostel, call the Pop Inn Hostel and so far, so good. It’s much larger, cleaner and people seem generally more sociable. We spent today sweating around Rome, checking out various sights including a guided tour of the Vatican.  Since my Roman history isn’t that good, these guided tours are fantastic.  Our tour guides knew an oustanding amount of information and made our experience in Rome worthwhile from an educational experience. 

We’re here for 2 more days then off to Florence for 6 days where we will have several 1 day trips to various Tuscan towns including Sienna, Lucca and maybe one other. 

I’m using a crappy inernet kiosk right now that charges and arm and a leg so I only have 12 mins