1. Book tickets in Advance

This is so so important. If you don't read the rest of this blog, at least read this! You will want to book your tickets for the Colosseum and the Vatican in advance to avoid waiting in those catastrophically long lines. Rome is packed for the majority of the year, so getting in and out of these major sites is almost impossible without advanced tickets! Visit the official website to book Vatican tickets. Visit the official website to buy Colosseum tickets. They usually post tic...

5. Fruit Juice

If you are like me, fruit juice is no big deal, like, who wants juice? But in Rome, the juice is FRESH SQUEEZED! Yes, they have stands where people are literally squeezing fruit to make juice for you. Many restaurants have a juice machine too. Even the airport coffee shop made our orange juice fresh right in front of us. Sometimes orange juice means blood orange juice (which is even tastier in my opinion) but go with it! Every juice it had was delicious. I heard the pomegranate juice is a...

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