Una piccola storia d’Italia – ardente desiderio a Roma!!! 

 

There are only two lines of metro a Roma, try to go with these whenever it is possible! The busses are terrible, very full of people, no timetable. But if you need busses, don’t look normally to the number where it goes. Only look to the right direction, have a good map of Rome, and when the bus takes another direction get out and wait for the next which goes in your direction – otherwise you have no chance! Only when you want to go to the “Via Appia antica” then you need a special bus, then you must really choose! But be careful, we was one time at the Via Appia, then the bus-drivers made a spontaneously strike and we must  go back one and a half hour  by foot to the next metro-station!- This is also Roma and Italia!    

Some more tips: When you want to go to eat very good and cheap, don’t go in Trastevere to the right side after the bridge, go to the left side! And you will find also in a small street the best confecteria of the whole world! If you only want to eat a pizza, then go to “Panattoni”, at the main street in Tastevere, at the left side after the bridge, 200 meters, after McDonalds.

And also when you want to go out at the evening to eat a pizza or others, go to this quartiere, where I was living three weeks, to the quartiere San Lorenzo, in the north of the statione termini, to the Via degli Equi, specially to the Pizzeria “Formula Uno”, there you get a best Pizza for a very good price. And if this Pizzeria is full of people, the Romans are waiting patiently and friendly till they can sit down. But not before 8 o’clock in the evening, then you have no chance to get something!

If you plan to travel to Frascati, forget it, it’s nothing, the people are totally unfriendly, only you can buy this special wine, which you also can buy everywhere a Roma!

In spite of this all I would prefer to live in Rome, it’s really a beautiful town in spite of the terrible traffic and the air pollution. – But: ROMA IS A GREAT DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

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