Matt Bouzaid
We arrived at Ancona around 6:20pm on Tuesday (after a rather interesting ferry ride) causing the group to make a mad dash to the train station to catch the 6:41pm train. Upon our arrival at the train station, we gathered the news that we had missed our train and that the next train to Rome was in fact at 7:45pm, giving us another much need rest before our adventures in Rome the next day. The train ride was 4 hours, giving the boys another chance to catch up on some much needed rest. We finally arrived at the nunnery at 11:30pm to the excitement of the nuns.
The next day was to be our first day in Rome. A late start of 9am was set for our adventures to begin, and as I lay my eyes on Rome for the first time in the morning light, I was astonished at how beautiful the city was. It was, in my opinion, a lot more appealing to the eye than Athens. The graffiti and rubbish had toned down compared to Athens and the buildings were a lot more structured than that of the ugly, concrete Athenian apartment buildings. Throughout the day we visited many churches, temples, museums and famous landmarks like the colosseum. I was overwhelmed at the sheer beauty of the churches and the wealth shown by them. Not one church was the same, each having its own character but sharing similar styles of design. The art we saw, I think, was also better than that of Athens. Their use of perspective blew me away and the amount of detail in their pieces was amazing. So far Rome is an amazing city, to which I would gladly return to one day.
