TRAVELLING BUG

I have something to admit..... I have the travel bug. There I said it and it feels good to let it out!  


These last 2 years I have been travelling around Europe in between work and I have been loving it. The only negative from the experiences I have is that I'm still being told to be sensible with my money and save it for a house or for more appropriate things but I love travelling.  I think it is so important to go travelling when you are young so you can learn about different countries culture and history.  Even now 2 years on when I tell my family I am going somewhere, they roll their eyes and say when will you start saving. There is so much time to do that or save at the same time. I am only 24 years old, people do so much more wilder activities such as go travelling for 6 months and then have to come home and face reality... me I am doing it bit by bit!!  I have decided this year that I will reign it in a little and stick to travelling once a year so I can do some sort of saving as now I have decided I want to move out. But this was done on my terms not on anyone else's. 

My first travels in 2015 was to Italy, where myself and my friend  travelled to 3 parts- I have written  a blog post on this already. Here they are:
Part 1: https://andreasworld12.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/a-week-in-italy-part-one.html
Part 2: https://andreasworld12.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/a-week-in-italy-part-two.html
Part 3: https://andreasworld12.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/a-week-in-italy-part-three.html

This was a eye opener because it was my first holiday without my parents and it was a great opportunity to be independent.

My next travel opportunity was in 2016 to Amsterdam and Prague which I have not done a blog post just yet. But it was amazing to explore such beautiful cities with so much history behind it. Prague was very  Gothic and medieval and the food was delicious while Amsterdam was very modern and fresh.  

This summer 2017 I have been to Barcelona in July which was a wonderful experience to learn about Picasso and Gaudi especially he was a wonderful artist.  I also went to Costa de Sol which was more of a relaxing holiday... but I had never been Spain before and I went twice in 1 summer!! 


My last travel of the year will be in October I am going to Budapest for a week and I cannot wait to explore another City!

A WEEK IN ITALY- PART ONE

In October 2015 I went to Italy with my friend Amelia for a week. We started off in Rome for 3 days, then spent one day in Pisa to begin with and than Florence, and than the last 3 days were spent in Venice.

                                                                            ROME

We flew  to Rome  early morning Sunday  so we could  have the whole day to ourselves to explore. We tried to see the Vatican but turns out it is closed on the last Sunday of every month... our luck! So we went to see Piazza Navona which is this really  nice area and by the time we arrived it was early evening.  We  sat by the fountains had a walk around the square before sitting at one of the many restaurants nearby got dessert.  There was street artists nearby, playing music and instruments which was interesting to see.  There were not that many people around so wasn't too busy which made it a nice atmosphere.
   

DESSERT TIME!

On the Monday, we visited the Vatican quite early as we managed to get a tour the day before for a really good price. Our tour guide was so good and informative and I am very happy with we decided to go with one.  The Vatican itself was extraordinary such beautiful architecture, painting and history that goes with it, I could not fault anything.   Straight after we went to the Colosseum using the metro.  As we had a Rome pass which entitled us to free transport for 3 days and 2 free museum entries.  We used the Colosseum as one of our free entries and this also entitled us to go the Roman Forums and Palestine Hill.   It was interesting walking around the Colosseum where it held gladiatorial contests, it was also very strange to think that many years ago people watched these contests where we were now standing.  The Roman Forums were opposite and we had a nice wonder taking our time too look at all the ruins that were left there.  We made it just in time to the Palestine Hill before it closed; there were lovely views of Rome especially as it was getting late, the sun was beginning to set!  In the evening, we visited the Spanish steps and Trevi fountain that were both under construction unfortunately but looked nice from the outside we had some lovely dinner we found in a lovely side street before heading onto a bar for some drinks!

ROMAN FORUMS

PALESTINE HILL VIEWS

COLOSSEUM

LOVED OUR TOUR GUIDE 

BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS AT THE VATICAN

OUR YUMMY FOOD 

On Tuesday, to begin with we had breakfast outside of the hotel/apartment for a change and then walked to see some of the shops and what fashion was like,  We walked to a park called Villa Borghese which was so big!  We hired this bike/car thing and had a ride round which was so fun and we both had so many laughs!!  It was nice to see the big park at a pace as we would not have seen it if we were on foot.  We walked to a museum nearby and used our second  free entry pass there! It was a cool museum, one we wouldn't have done usually so happy we did it there!

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