This day was Chinese New Year eve. As usual, I woke up at 4.30am and packed up before a quick shower as we were going to stay in Rome for the next few days. After having our pre-packed breakfast, we headed to Florance from Rimini town at around 6.30am.
The scenery on the way to Florance was pretty breath taking as the surroundings were of mountains and hills that were covered with snow on the top. Upon reaching Florence, as we came down from the bus not at the center but the near the suburbs I got a false idea that Florence was a countryside town. Though, as we walked into the town center, the all so familiar modern mixed with ancient feeling came back(just like what I felt in Milan). We only had 5 hours to walk about and there were loads of place to visit, so we detached from the main tour group and walked off by ourselves.
With little time to spare, we rushed from one spot to another but managed to get a taste of the local food and found one of the cheapest gelato stores which charged us 1.50 euros for 2 scoops.
Although we were running around in order to visit all the places, we had loads of fun, especially when we had to run to catch up with the tour at the end of the journey because we left the T-shirt buying for the last.
With that, we left Florence at 4.30pm for Rome. We stopped in a nearby factory on the way to Rome which produces chocolates, truffles, wines, olive oil and other Italy food products and alcoholic drinks. Being the usual chinese, we practically had our dinner by tasting all the tester they had there.
As we were going to reach Rome at a rather late hour, the tour guide decided to stop at a nearby rest house at around 6.30pm for dinner. Owing to the fact that the meals were very expensive, all of us decided to go without dinner which was kind of pitiful to think of. It was CNY eve and there we were skipping one of the most important dinners to us.
We manage to reach the hotel in Rome at 8 pm and after checking in, we decided not to waste time and visit some parts of Rome that were spectacular even during the night. While walking in Rome city center, we had a brief dinner which taste bad.
That night, we visited the Spanish steps and also Trevi fountain which is a very very amazing place and a place which I would say i liked best in the whole trip. Everyone of us decided to follow the tradition of throwing a coin into the fountain which is supposed to allow you to return to Italy in the future( it was what one of my friend did during her last trip to Italy and there she was standing in front of Trevi Fountain again).
After all the photo sessions, it was already 11.30pm and the metro stations have already closed. We had to walked back to the main bus and metro stations to get a night bus back to our hotel. We hopped on the night bus only to find out that we were in the wrong direction and had to take another bus and waited for another 30minutes. We managed to return back to the hotel only at around 1.15am. Went back to the room for a shower and went to bed around 2am.
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