Recently one of my friends was in Rome and said she was going write a blog post called "What to Do in 24 Hours in Rome!" and I thought, "I should write that, too, since I don't want to spend more than 24 hours in Rome ever again." I know, this is a super unpopular opinion and I'm total fucking weirdo for having it. But the tl;dr: I didn't really like Italy when I visited in 2008. I'm not a foodie, or into art museums, or the Catholic church. There's only so much Gelato I can eat and I live in ... VIEW POST
How To Kill Time When You Have a Layover in Rome, Italy
An Agnostic Visits the Sistine Chapel & the Vatican City (Rome, Italy)
Actually, I could think of a lot of good reasons that you shouldn't pay to go into the Vatican (have you not seen Spotlight?), but I was in Rome and based on my feelings about my experience in Italy thus far, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to come back so I may as well get it all out of the way this time. I also grew up with an art teacher in elementary school (Mr. M!) who loved Michelangelo and talked about the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in class all the time (he also loved Da Vinci's ... VIEW POST