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How to Take a Taxi in Rome and Not Get Ripped Off

No one likes them. Every time I write anything about the good ol’ PT, I inevitably get a random Italian commenter who hasn’t ever read my blog before (and thus has no idea how adoring I truly am of my adopted country), but somehow landed on that one post where I get all complainy, and tries to defend the PT in the comments by suggesting in some creative and colorful form that if I don’t like it I can go back to my own damn country. Ok, maybe not every time. But lots of times, anyways. Maybe it was calling this post “Italian Postal Service I Hate You With All My Heart” that made some readers think I’m bitter and cynical. Maybe it was the one called No stamps, this is the post office. Maybe people just don’t appreciate quality sarcasm anymore. Well, as you might already know, the Italian postal service (and here I use the term “service” very loosely) is a never-ending font of things to both ridicule and belittle.

Please observe Exhibit A: You got it? Perfect sense. Domus Apt Agency (Rome) Slow Travel Talk - Slow Travel Community. Official Website. ITALY - Tourism in Italy, travel tips, information, italian regi. N Tourism official website - Italia.it. Ristorante Federico I - Via della Colonna Antonina, 48 - 00186 R. Italy First Time Visitor Guide. By Jessica | August 10th, 2009 Italy may not be a massive country, but there’s enough to see and do that it’s a little on the ambitious (if not a bit crazy) side to just say “I’m going to take a trip to Italy” without narrowing it down to a list of specific cities or at least regions you want to visit.

Italy First Time Visitor Guide

Still, there are some travel tips that are applicable to the whole country. Rome blog. Poor Poste Italiane.

Rome blog

No one likes them. Languages - Italian - Italian Quick Fix. Leisure and Business Travel Packing List - Travel Light with One. Rome guide book from Hg2 city guide. Images of Italy Photo Gallery by Chris Thorpe at pbase. Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts. Graffiti from Pompeii. I.10.4 (near the rear entrance vestibule of the House of Menander); 8356: At Nuceria, look for Novellia Primigenia near the Roman gate in the prostitute’s district.

Graffiti from Pompeii

I.10.4 (exterior of the House of Menander); 8304: Satura was here on September 3rd I.10.7 (House and Office of Volusius Iuvencus; left of the door); 8364: Secundus says hello to his Prima, wherever she is. I ask, my mistress, that you love me. Realistic Advice on Rome, Rome tourist and expatriate informatio. Well, two or three people anyway.

Realistic Advice on Rome, Rome tourist and expatriate informatio

And two of those are in Alaska. Oh well, I'll just take this opportunity anyway to say "Hi, Mom, I'm in Rome! ", and if anyone else out there is listening, let me just say welcome to the wackiest guide to Rome on the Internet. We hope you'll enjoy all the 'insider' tourist information we've put together for you. We live in Rome, see?

But our information about Rome doesn't end there... Out of two million international visitors to Rome each year, do you suppose for one second that every single one of them have the perfect holiday? The good thing about a bad holiday though, is that it's not forever. But some of us have to stay in Italy a bit longer than that. Italian Language School: Italian Course & Classes - Boston L. Italian Language and Culture Level 1 Aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the language.

Italian Language School: Italian Course & Classes - Boston L

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to discuss everyday activities using the present tense. Students can also expect to be able to read and write elementary texts such as a simple letter. David Rumsey Collection: Map of ancient Italy. European Villa Rentals and Holiday Villas - Rentvillas.com. The Aventine, Rome Italy. Organize your travel. Unusual Hotels of the World : Online Guide of the World's m. Rule 240: Don't Fly Without A Copy Of Rule 240. Winvian - Litchfield Hills, CT resort getaway. Schmap - Dynamic Travel Guides. Welcome to SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight. Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Flights, Airline Tick.

Tinymap - quick and easy maps. Deipnosophistae. Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Latin The Deipnosophistae (deipnon, "dinner", and sophistai, "professors"; original Greek title Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistai, English Deipnosophists) may be translated as The Banquet of the Learned or Philosophers at Dinner or The Gastronomers. The Deipnosophists is a long work of literary and antiquarian research by the Hellenistic author Athenaeus of Naucratis in Egypt, written in Rome in the early 3rd century AD. The protagonist is Larensi(u)s, the host of a leisurely banquet whose main purpose is literary, historical and antiquarian conversation. Green Mountain Inn. Italian villas and vacation rentals. Travel Italy with The Parke.

World66 - Home. Go anywhere disposable scrabble game. Welcome to Northwest Palate magazine. Cheap Gas. The top 50 things every foodie sho. OANDA, The Currency Site: Foreign Exchange Services and Trading. Maine.gov - Official Web Site of the State of Maine. Literary Traveler, Literary Tours, Literary Travel Articles.