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Accomodations In Europe

Accommodations in UK and Prague are mainly at friends place. These are the hotels that we stayed at other places. Amsterdam Hotel Kooyk Leidsekade 82, Amsterdam 1017 PM, Netherlands +31206230295 kooyk@hotmail.com Rate: 90 euro per room per night (triple room including breakfast) Paris Lille Lourve Hotel 8 Rue du Pelican, Paris +33142333342 reservation@hoteldelille-paris.com Rate: 105 euro per room per night (triple room including breakfast) Venice Hotel Alle Guglie Ponte delle Guglie, Rio Tera San Leonardo, Cannaregio 1523 30121 Venezia, Italia +39041717351 info@hotelalleguglie.com Rate: 85 euro per room per night (triple room including breakfast) Rome  Auditorium Di Mecenate Via Dello Statuto 44 Rome, 00185 Italia +39064881464 info@auditoriumdimecenate.com Rate: 59 euro per room per night (triple room including breakfast)

La Roma Part 2

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8/1/10 The highlight for today was Vatican City. Vatican city is actually a country by itself. Here, we visited the Vatican City Museum, Basilica San Pietro where we went inside the church. We also visited places where the movie Angels and Demons were shot. After that we continue exloring the other parts of Rome namely Piazza del Popolo, Via del Corso the main straight street of Rome, Spanish steps, Fontana di Trevi and Tempio Adriano.  Vatican Museum Some of the exhibitions inside Vatican Museum The architecture inside Vatican Museum Octahedral Court at Vatican Museum A scene that can be found in Angels and Demons Basilica di San Pietro Inside Basilica di San Pietro A place in the movie Angels and Demons where the man burns himself Swiss Army guarding the Basilica Piazza del Popolo heading towards Via del Corso Fontana di Trevi Tempio Adriano Spanish Steps Today we also witnessed two dramas. the first one was on our ...

La Roma Part 1

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6/1/10 Rome, what to say about rome. The weather is what we'd expected of Italy coz it was 15 degree on the day we arrived but the people there are cunning. Well, not all of them but that was my first impression. They try to rip you off especially everywhere especially at tourist sites. So whoever dreams of going there, you have to be careful. When we arrived at the airport, we were looking for the shuttle bus to the city as the airport is quite far from the central. Then this one man approached us and ask us couple of questions. We thought that he want to help us but then he took us to a black van which seems like a private shuttle bus. I know at that moment that this was not right as we expected a white bus which says shuttle bus. Now we had to pay double of what we were expected to pay. After we checked in to our hotel, we head out and the hotel personnel asked us to get the 3 day public transport pass as it's easier to get around. He said that all the places are far ...