Okay, I'm off to Rome in a couple of weeks. I've never been. What should I see/do/go to/ eat etc?

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Berni]

architecturally. Hardly worth bothering with, really.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://www.finneganpub.com/

[Classic Jorge]

Ultimately you wont have enough time to do everything but I split my time there between galleries and old buildings.

[Classic Jorge]

Though for me Florence trumps it for sheer beauty per square foot

[Nicosia Gooner]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tripadviso r.android.apps.cityguide.rome (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tripadvisor.android.apps.cityguide. rome)

[Pat Vegas]

city for discount prices.

Be careful of the sneaky cafe/bar owners around the town. You might need to pee whilst you are walking around. They will quite happily sell you a coffee but when you ask for the toilet they will say they don't have one. When they clearly do.

Plus some have this weird thing where you have to pay more to sit down to drink your coffee.

And that is how they treat other Italians not just the tourists.

One other tip don't put your bag on the floor for a few seconds whilst visiting Piazza Venezia. Otherwise some cop will blow his whistle at you and start shouting. (dressed like the policeman in Allo Allo)

[Berni]

Surely there are Bornean apemen who could name five things they'd want to see in Rome?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm going to Verona over Easter. I've never been.

I bet it's ****.

[Pat Vegas]

I wonder if any modern cities will survive like this and be looked back upon by future humans.

'How did they build this empire state building?' What sort of primitive technology must they have used.

[Classic Jorge]

Not

Even

Ironically

[Pat Vegas]

My GF was there for 2 weeks on a business trip. She recommended some restaurant up on the hills, I will have to get the name of it.

[Classic Jorge]

I've never been but I hear good things, lovely food apparently. Even by italian standards

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Free accommodation is a big plus.

[Brentwood]

[Pat Vegas]

ridicules prices.

The coffee bit happened to me.
The shouty man was shouting at some other yank bloke

[Ashberto]

chair, table and land. It works that way in France too.

[Pokster]

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Pat Vegas]

break.

No break at all. They drink it at the counter and down it like a shot. 'Let's Go!'

I thought we could sit down for a few minutes at least.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

I always feel slightly silly if I go to a coffee shop with someone and we order coffee because they'll order some vast latte or what have you and I'll have a double espresso, which I'll drink as soon as I've sat down, meaning I have to spend the next half hour watching them consume their pint of frothy nonsense.

[Pokster]

[Pat Vegas]

[Pat Vegas]

[Curly]

Bit out of the way in a non-descript part of town so much less crowded.
The toppermost highlight of my 3 visits

[Ashberto]

Unless they've cleaned it up and repaired it in the 30 years since I was there.

[Pokster]

helped a friends wife was from venice so she gave us places to go to avoid the plebs

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]