Roma 24th March 2011

Roma 24th March 2011


I am a student on a year abroad and whenever there is a break in the schedule I go travelling so I decided to  write a blog about what I got up to and what I saw. Hope you enjoy it.


So I went to Rome with my two friends Dawn* and Porter*, we flew from Marseille to Rome Ciampino which is one of the smaller airports in Rome and mostly caters for the budget airlines. We flew using Ryanair which is a European budget airline. The service is adequate and you are only allowed one bag as hand luggage and any other bags are chargeable. You must also make sure your bag fits in the bag template so there is always a worry when travelling if it will fit or even if they will ask you to put it in the template device. So we all took rucksacks but holdalls or small suitcases are also allowed but only one. 

We landed in Rome at 3.15pm and bought a return ticket to the main Termini Station in Rome. The bus journey was 40 minutes long with no air conditioning. We stayed at Alessandro Downtown Hostel, I would surely recommend it. It is in a very good location, and very near the Termini station. There is free dinner on weekdays and breakfast everyday. A free hour of wifi or internet is given as well as very friendly and helpful staff. The rooms very very clean and spacious as for some places it's their aim to fit as many bunk beds in a room. We were in an 8 bedroom dorm, there was no ensuite but the toilet was in our hallway and also clean. 

By the time we had settled in it was quite late so we went to bed so we could be up early for our busy day ahead.  


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