The Book of Sifty

Rome and a pub crawl.. 9:45AM

Well I'm not doing that again! So I'm now in Rome, Italy. Flew in yesterday to Ancona, then took a four hour train to get here. That was massively cheaper than flying straight to Rome, this hostel has free internet access so i'm now sitting here with a killer hangover about to go out and see some sights. BTW I'm using a computer in Italian, with italian keys and nothing except the major qwerty keys in the right place so don't expect any punctuation. Infact the keys where the punctuation ones should be are the ones you get by accident normally like '''''簧 etc..

So last night we showed up at this hostel and got invited along on a pub crawl. This is my most hated thing about a lot of tourists in europe. The organised pub crawl\backpacker piss up. But travelling is about trying new things and frankly if i never have to endure that again i'll be happy. So Marcus and I rolled along a little late to the meeting place.. we step out of the metro (tube\subway) and straight infront of the coloseum. My god! Turn around and there are about 70 people chugging beers and being taken through stupid drinking games. What have we got ourselves in for? Here we aer in one of the most famous and instantly recognisable landmarks, and this group of people are getting shots for skulling beers..

Well we signed up and paid our '7.5 that got us a Tt-shirt, which i never got and don't want, beers for an hour (we turned up 45 minutes late), free entry to a whole bunch of clubs (free anyway and i don't think i would want to go there anyways), and shot at the door of each one.

Well it was an experience at any rate, got home at 3am, very drunk, having lost Marcus, and had to resort to taking a taxi back here. Interesting to see a side of travelling you hear a lot about. Me being the cynical one cross interogated the minders who escorted us around the bars about how much money they made and how it works. These guy\girls take up to 70 people around rome to get pissed. They apparently get paid by the bars for bringing these people in, and manage to this every night of the week.

okay marcus and i are about the head out and i really need to eat