EurpTrip 1.0 is a school trip and the reason my dad was there is because he is a teacher at our high school.
Our trip started at home because the day we were going to take a plane to Toronto there was a snow storm here, so we needed to take a greyhound to get to Toronto without missing out flight which would take us to Frankfurt to end up in Rome. This was the first trip for a lot of people so just getting there was an adventure.
Once in Rome
we explored the sights that all tourists get to see, with a little Italian woman in our ear... well practically, since we were a big group the tour was set up with a little radio transmitter that allowed us to listen to our guide without being close to her. We were able to to visit the Coliseum, the Vatican (which is another country all together) we did a complete tour and enjoyed it because it rained everyday we were there except they day we were in Assisi. In Rome we were also able to see the pope's summer house which was right near our hotel, which was very roman in my mind, with all the statues and everything.
we explored the sights that all tourists get to see, with a little Italian woman in our ear... well practically, since we were a big group the tour was set up with a little radio transmitter that allowed us to listen to our guide without being close to her. We were able to to visit the Coliseum, the Vatican (which is another country all together) we did a complete tour and enjoyed it because it rained everyday we were there except they day we were in Assisi. In Rome we were also able to see the pope's summer house which was right near our hotel, which was very roman in my mind, with all the statues and everything. 
We also made sure to throw our coins into the Trevi Fountain
, I threw in 2, to get married. If you throw one in it's to come back to Rome, two to get married and three to get divorced. We visited the Parthenon, and since it was just after The DaVinci Code
made it big we were on the hunt for some of the clues we got to read and see in the story, we saw many of the churches that Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) followed to end up at the castle, which unfortunately we weren't able to visit. But we did see all 5 obelix that were mentioned as well as 2 of the churches. Followed our guide Vittorio, who is from Italy and stayed with us the whole trip through the crowded streets and managed not to lose anyone. The other accompanying teacher is from Italy so she taught us basic italian upon arrival, we were all able to count to 30 (she said we wouldn't need more if we were bargaining for anything) as well as a few words we picked up, being similar to french it was quite a lot.
, I threw in 2, to get married. If you throw one in it's to come back to Rome, two to get married and three to get divorced. We visited the Parthenon, and since it was just after The DaVinci Code made it big we were on the hunt for some of the clues we got to read and see in the story, we saw many of the churches that Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) followed to end up at the castle, which unfortunately we weren't able to visit. But we did see all 5 obelix that were mentioned as well as 2 of the churches. Followed our guide Vittorio, who is from Italy and stayed with us the whole trip through the crowded streets and managed not to lose anyone. The other accompanying teacher is from Italy so she taught us basic italian upon arrival, we were all able to count to 30 (she said we wouldn't need more if we were bargaining for anything) as well as a few words we picked up, being similar to french it was quite a lot.
We headed to Assisi,
where St-Francis was born, a beautiful little mountain town. We visited St-Francis church and than had the option to go to the castle, the downfall with going to the castle is that by the time you'd get back from the hike you wouldn't have any time to see anything else, so we opted out, it gave us a chance to visit the town. Assisi was also the only sunny day we encountered in the two weeks we spent in Europe. Other than visiting a place where they make ceramic plates we were pretty much left loose on the town by our teachers, some of us decided to look at the little tourist shop that were there while warding off anti-american slurs (which were very common... some people got spit on!). Assisi is also the one place where we had Italian Gellato, YUM!Bongiorno for now, stay tuned there is a lot more to come.
the pictures are: 1. my dad and i at the coliseum (p.s. not my sweater... I borrowed it from my friend... seriously) 2. throwing my two coins into the Trevi Fountain 3. the view from someone's backyard in Assisi.
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