Route: Rome. That’s it.

Total number of days - 8
**See below for breakdown

Budget: $60/day
Overall Average: We’d rather not discuss it.

Interesting Expenditures:

• Renting an apartment near the Vatican: $110/night.
• Train into the city from the Airport: $13.
• Two loads of laundry: $30.
• Bottle of wine by Trevi Fountain: $6.
• Gelato: $2.50

Food and Drink: Food was… unreal. The pastas, pizzas, and our favorite, gelato all lived up to high expectations. Beth and I particularly enjoyed the “enotecas”, wine bars that serve, among a full menu, cheeses, meats, pates, and antipasta.

Must Eats:

• Gelato, pizza, pasta, of course. The carbonata pasta got consitently high marks.
• Gotta dip into some buffalo mozzarella, which can be found at any cheese store… we kept going to the Trevi fountain area to get it in the stores around there.
• Find an enoteca

Highlights: Every meal. Gelato. Drinking wine and eating cheese at Trevi Fountain. Wandering around the Vatican. Seeing Lauren’s family. Getting in a fight with the Gladiators at the Colosseum.

Best Deal: What deal? Oh ya, pilfering the cheese from the Best Western free breakfast for lunch. $1.30 subway rides and $2.50 for gelato is about as cheap as it gets.

**Calendar of Events:
March
24 - flew to Rome from Cairo, Egypt
25-31 - Rome

April
1 - Rome to Buenos Aires, Argentina