Money Money Money
by jag17
ATM machines are located all over Italy, and are an easy way to access money. The machines also have a variety of languages, making them very user friendly. Just remember, your ATM is tied to your checking account! In the US we have options to transfer money, or take the money from a savings account. The ATM's in Italy do not have these options. They are only tied to your checking account, and that's where the money comes from. I learned the hard way, and needed to make a long distance call to transfer funds.
Packing List
by syllybabe
Try to keep your luggage small and pack as lightly as possible. The hotel rooms are small and so are cars. If you're travelling by train, the smaller the bag, the easier to stow in the overhead luggage compartment. Comfortable walking shoes but I would like to add that as much as possible, try not to wear sneakers. I noticed that everyone was so well dressed and hardly saw sneakered feet.
I'm not one who worries about getting wet in the rain but this time I will actually suggest for you to grab an umbrella. There is so much to see that you shouldn't let a little rain stop you from seeing the city. Bring your usual prescription meds and some over the counter pain pills and cold/flu meds. Most stuff sold in pharmacies are labeled in italian and have information inserts that are in italian as well so buying a common cold medicine becomes trickier than it should be. I took a digital camera that had batteries that seemed to last forever. I charged it only once in 2 weeks and I don't have to worry about developing the pictures. Biggest bonus is that you can delete the pics you hate right away. One mini disk stores over 120 pictures if taking fine quality pics.
Nativity Scene
by nicolettart about Upim
In mid-November the department stores like Upim and Standa were just beginning to put out their Christmas items. I was able to pick up some small pieces just as they were unpacking their shipment. Now, we're not talking high quality museum pieces like you would find in Spaccanapoli in Naples. I bought some small plastic bags of flour, pottery, stucco farmhouse fragments covered in moss, donkey pulling a cart, and some figures. Nice additions to my Nativity. They were inexpensive between 2 and 7 Euro.
Antica Taverna
by carl517 about Antica Taverna
good roman food (we had pizza and pasta), decent ambience, cute ristorante tucked into a corner near pizzeria da baffeto. was nice to find at least one place not dominated by tourists! also, they didn't try to cheat us like some other places we went to :( prices were in the 7-10 euro range (at the time this was 10-15 USD) for pizzas, pastas, or secondi (entrees). I had a lamb secondi, which was very flavorful but a little lacking in meatiness. However, I also had the margherita pizza, which was delicious! overall, any restaurant that does cheese pizza that much better than in the States, can't be that bad...
If you ask us-this had best icecream!
by Turska about Gelateria nuova vite
Italian icecream is good-if you ask where it is best,you will have hundreds of answers.We thought it was best here.It had some stickers of travel agencys and some contest,where red"best ice cream 2005""best ice cream 2006" and so o and so on,so we weren´t the only ones to love it. Coconut and pineapple-they had real coconut-flakes in coconut-icecream and so on.
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A souvenir from a not-so-sober experience
The tomb of St. Francis of Assisi
...inside...
"Can I Take One Of These Stools Home?"
