Nice was very pretty. The pebble beaches were kind of hard to walk on, but when the waves washed away it made a really creepy sound of all the rocks crashing against each other. It's hard to explain, you'll just have to go and hear for yourself. We climbed up some steps to a lookout and were rewarded with beautiful views of the Nice shore. It was pretty bad ass.
That night, we went to the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco. I gambled, and lost it all. I now have to beg on the streets for money to buy food. Actually, I didn't even go into the Monte Carlo because it was 10 euro just to enter, but I went to another casino in Monaco. I lost 35 euro. Poker wasn't my game that night. Should have played roulette, some people were making serious bank.
After Monaco we made our way to Florence. Florence was nice, it felt like a smaller city. Our "campground" in Florence was amazing; it was basically a resort. In Florence I saw some cool sculptures and the Duomo and stuff like that, but all the really awesome art was in the Louvre or the Vatican or stuff like that, so Florence couldn't really compare. Sorry, Florence.
Rome was pretty freaking awesome. Ancient Rome was especially cool. It's really awesome to walk around the Roman ruins and think that all the ancient Romans were walking around the same places 2000+ years ago. The Pantheon (one of the oldest buildings in Rome) was impressive, as was the Coliseum, the Roman forums and the Trevi fountain. All of Rome was impressive, actually. It was probably my favorite European city so far.
So that's my life for the past few days in a nutshell. The bus trip is over, and I'm sad that I had to leave all those friends. They were pretty cool people. But now I'm hanging out with Megan, and that's pretty cool as well (I'm not just writing that because she is reading over my shoulder). In a few days I'm off to Croatia, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to blog. I'm not sure how much internet Croatia has, but I'll do my best. For the time being, enjoy these pictures of all the things I just explained. Ciao.
p.s: I meant to post this blog yesterday, but then Megan and I went out to bars with her friends. It was quite fun. Sorry for the delay.
Outside of St. Peter's Basilica
Inside of St.Peter's Basilica
The Roman Forums. They don't look like much from this picture, but they're really cool. Caeser's body is buried there and there are ruins from old temples and stuff.
The Pantheon, the oldest building in Rome
I don't really remember what this building is.
Just kidding, it's the colisseum
The Trevi Fountain. They say that if you throw one coin in you will return to Rome, if you throw two you'll meet someone in Rome and if you throw three you'll marry someone in Rome.
The Duomo in Florence, Italy
Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
Pisa. You can see the tower in the distance
A cool random church in Florence. I liked it because it had the Jewish star on the front
A really awesome church at some random small town in the middle of Italy. I don't remember what the town was called.
The Nice Beach from above
Me and Becca standing next to a waterfall near the Nice lookout
pps: It's really annoying to upload photos to blogger and have the captions show up where I want them to, so just deal with the weird formatting.
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