after spending a few days in sorrento we headed to rome for a day. rome was defiantly an experience we will not soon forget. we took an early train from sorrento up to rome and we weren’t planning on staying at all, but we met this guy on couchsurfing.com named alessandro who single handedly changed our plans and we started our adventure in rome.
alessandro is a tour guide and said he would love to give us a tour of the city. so we decided to see if we could find a place to stay that night and see the city a little bit. alessandro came and picked us up from the train station and took up to this hostel that some of his friend were staying at. unfortunately the hostel we went to only had one room available, but it was $85, so we declined. but alessandro’s friends were great and let us keep our bags in their room till we figured out what we were going to do. next we jumped into alessandro’s car and away we went. we “saw” rome in about 2.5 hours. alessandro is one of those crazy italian drivers, so although i was sure we were going to die, it was fun to see a bit of the city. we just got a quick taste of rome, which is to bad because we both really liked what we saw. also alessandro had a really thick italian accent and he talked really fast, so although he was trying to tell us about rome we really had no idea what he was saying. 
after our tour we met up with alessandro’s friends and went out for some really good italian pasta, probably the best we had on the entire trip. we also happened to be in rome the day before one of the major church holidays, so the next day pretty much all the tourist places would be closed and the pope was giving mass at vatican city so it would be packed. thus, we decided that to hangout with alessandro and his friends and then catch the first train to florence. we went outside of the city a bit to the beach, we had no idea rome was anywhere near a beach. we had a great time hanging out.
we spend the wee hours of the morning sitting in front of the train station waiting for it to open. we caught the 7:00am train to florence and had the best 2 hour nap that a person could have on a train.
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