ROME PHOTO DIARY
Ever booked a holiday mid breakdown and left 7 hours later? Ever travelled alone? Ever taken yourself on a date in a beautiful city on your birthday?
Be Spontaneous and find out what I did for my 20th Birthday below.
17th July - I'm sat at my desk wondering what an earth I'm going to do for my 20th birthday, I'm saying farewell to my teens and want to see the end of that disastrous decade off in a fabulous way. So I weigh up my options and decide a weekend in the delights of Cleethorpes in not for me and consult my travel bucket list.
I must admit on a side note, I wasn't exactly myself on this day, being a typical girl and acting irrationally but all the same after 4 hours of crying at everything and anything I picked up the phone and rang up lastminute.com - I picked Rome, the setting of my favourite book, my life bible 'Eat, Pray, Love', I wanted to be Liz and I wanted to do something for myself after what can only be described as a bloody awful year.
'I WANT TO GO TO ROME TOMORROW' - I felt sorry for 'John' at the end of the line with me shouting my demands but after a short phone call and an exchange of dates and debit card numbers I was frantically throwing the contents of my bedroom into a suitcase, after all I was leaving in 7 hours time.
After what seemed like a 5 minute sleep I headed to the train station at 5am to begin the first leg of my journey Cleethorpes - Manchester.
I arrived at Manchester groggy, blurry eyed and what I can only describe as 'shit scared' - travelling alone with a connecting flight to a big city without even having the time to process what I was doing I was stood in Terminal 3. What does a girl do in this situation? Get some tea and pastries.
My flights went smoothly and I stepped off the aiport bus into the heat of Rome to be met by the one and only Hannah Oxton, 1/4 of my favourite orcas who just by chance happened to be in Rome on her own this weekend - if that isn't fate I don't know what is.
We trundled through the city with my bags and checked into my hotel before heading out for our first evening of wine, olives and pasta with plenty of gossiping and day planning.
The photos below are the best way to show you the rest of my trip, the pure beauty of Rome and the delicious food it had to offer ...
THE FOOD
First night of pasta and day planning | The best pizza in the world | Fresh fruit by the Coloseum | The famous Tre Scalinis Tartufo shared romantically by 2 orcas | Birthday meal Rome Style | Birthday Breakfast ft. Pastries | Gelato at the Spanish Steps | Meal for one on my actual Birthday | The love of my life Gelato.
WHEN IN ROME..
Spanish Steps | Pantheon | Love Locks by the river | Beautiful Streets | Coloseum | Vatican City | Amazing Buildings x 2 | Classic Italy | Pantheon at Night | Street art | Coloseum by Night | Nights in Rome | Setting of my Favourite Book | Discoverin Hidden Streets
Rome Ft. Han and Loz
Would like to say the biggest thank you to the best gal above (who looks absolutely beautiful in all these photos) for making my birthday weekend so special and one to remember for years ahead, Hannah Oxton you are a gem x
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