ITALY TRAVEL VLOG: things to do in Rome and on the Amalfi Coast

Hey guys, welcome back to part... Rainy Rome. Part two of our honeymoon vlog. If you missed our last one, we just left Portugal. Make sure you go watch that vlog. We were there for about a week. We went to Lagos in Lisbon and it was a lot of fun. So we just landed in Rome today. We're kind of walking around. We've had to take a couple of timeouts just to have breaks from the rain because it started raining shortly after we got here. Sorry, I'm not tall enough. Do you want to hold it? Anyway, we're just at the bottom of the Spanish Steps right now. It just stopped raining. And we also went and checked out the Trevi Fountain earlier. Yeah, you want to see the steps? You want me to stop talking? The steps. Ta-da! You want to look up there? No. Okay. Oh my god. Okay, one sec. I'll show you the steps. Ta-da. That's where Noah's Ark landed. That's Noah's Ark, in case you were wondering. All the animals. You're narrating from now on. All right, now our plan is to head towards the Coliseum. We're going to go walk and check that out. I've never been to Rome before. Chris has been. So he's being my tour guide today. Just taking me to all the very touristy things. But we're staying like a two-minute walk on the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain, which is really nice. We can go check off all the tourist things really quickly. All right, we're going to go past the Trevi Fountain. So I'll show it to you guys, if you've never been to Rome before. It's like one of those things that you see in person, and even though you've seen it a million times in photos, it's just surreal. And what you don't see when you see the photos of the fountain is how many people there are standing around it. So I'll show you that too. So cool. What building is that? Um, bloody big one. On Chris's tour guides. The bloody big building. What is it? Altar of the Fatherland. It's massive. Astonishing. It's really pretty. We're just walking past all of these along the way. They're like historical, archaeological sites, I think it says over there. Yeah, archaeological area. But it's like remains of really old buildings. Wait, I want to go closer. That's cool. It's like dinosaur bones, but old buildings. Just nerding out a little bit. Everything's so cool. All the views. We're on our way to the Coliseum now. Ta-da! Honestly, it's smaller than I was expecting. Chris and I were just talking about how in movies it looks massive. This is my first time seeing it, obviously. It's massive, but it's not- It's big, but it's like that statue with the, or that big, huge, what did you call it? Big- Yeah. Big something building. Anyway. The Altar of the Father. Yeah, but what did you call it? I liked your name better. Big bloody building. Yeah, it looked a lot bigger than this. So, anyways. Very cool to see it in person, but- That's the Arc de Triomphe. We're in Paris now. Grand Vision. We're in Paris now. It's like the Vegas Eiffel Tower copying Paris ever. I mean, it's still pretty cool. Okay. Are you getting me some gelato? I'm getting a smell. Oh, that works too. We're just walking a little lap around it to see it from all of the sides. I was saying to Chris, I feel like there's parts that look like they've been kind of restored. Like, the brick looks newer versus the old material, but don't quote me on that because you'd probably have to do some actual reading. I'll doodle it. Okay. Chris's fun facts. We just walked up to the gate and taking a little look inside. Like, that's the other side. You can see right through it. It's not that big. Alright, what did your research tell you? It's restored. So, I was right. About 700 years ago. But it was restored in like, what, 13-something? Yeah. So, the brick ain't new. She looks new. She not. It's raining again. We thought we would take a selfie with the falls. Put it down. Sorry. Alright, we just got back to our Airbnb and I did a quick outfit change. I changed my hair slightly and we're going to head out to dinner. I'm going to go try and take some photos by the Trevi Fountain. Fingers crossed it's not as busy as it was earlier, but we shall see. And then we're going to go eat dinner. And I've noticed on a lot of the restaurant signage, it looks like everywhere has gluten-free, like, pizza and pasta. So, I'm really hopeful. Although, from what I've heard, a lot of my gluten intolerant friends can come to Europe and eat the pasta and be fine. I think a lot more people are just sensitive to the chemicals that they produce wheat products with in North America. But anyways, I'm not risking it. It's halfway through the trip. It could ruin the rest of the trip for me. So, anyway, we'll see what we can find. Alright, we're at the fountain. Got some pics. Now we're going to throw the coins over. Ready for good luck. 3, 2, 1. Did it? Alright, well, the coin that I threw into the Trevi Fountain landed on a rock. So, I don't know if that's really bad luck or really good luck. Who knows? If you know, let me know. I think it rolled off the rock because we couldn't see it after. So, it's probably fine. I just hope that's not like seven years bad luck or some ----. We are on our way to find a dinner spot now. We're walking towards the Pantheon to see if there's any like dinner spots. Oh, it looks like there's restaurants over here to find a nice little cute spot. And I'm going to have some gluten-free pasta or pizza. I'm decided. The Pantheon. Alright, we found a dinner spot. It's pretty epic. We're sitting like right by the Pantheon and the prices actually aren't outrageous. So, it's a win. Alright, we got our food. I got my GF pasta. Chris got a margarita pizza. He's already eating it. This looks so good. Alright, first gluten-free pasta was a success. It was delicious. What do you mean? I'm talking about the flavor. Not if I get sick. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it was delicious. Mine had like olive oil, garlic, and pecorino cheese on it. Chris just got a plain old margarita pizza like the basic bitch that he is. I'm just kidding. She's kidding. I almost got a margarita pizza for lunch. There's no judgment here. Yeah, now we're just going to walk and probably get our first Italian gelato. Just eating our way through Italy. And then we're going to try to go to bed. We lost an hour on the way here from Portugal. So, I feel like I'm still pretty wide awake right now even though it's like 11.30. So, hopefully we'll be able to fall asleep at a decent time so we can get up at a decent time tomorrow and get exploring. Alright, we decided on limoncello and hazelnut mixed together. Probably a little bit strange, but that's the two flavors we wanted. We're just sharing one. Looks good. With a side of Trevi Fountain. Good morning, you guys. We are just about to get our day started. We kind of slept in. We slept in until like 9.20, unfortunately. But it's because we lost an hour on the way to Rome from Portugal. So, we're just a little bit behind. And now we're finally ready to get the day started. And you can probably hear the thunder and the rain. So, we're going to go find a cute little cafe to have a coffee at and post up for a little bit until this passes. Because this was like yesterday's thunderstorm. It got really rainy and thundery for like half an hour and then it went away. And it was fine for the rest of the day. So, fingers crossed that's what it does today too. Chris's outfit of the day. I don't know why that light's like strobing out. Okay. Outfit of the day. Top, Zara. Shorts. We got those at H&M in Lisbon. And his little chucks. And he looks so cute. He's happy about it. It's nice and warm outside. We bought this 5 euro umbrella yesterday off of a guy. There's just people selling stuff on the street. But it's like they know exactly what you're going to need. As soon as it started raining there was a guy who was like, umbrella? Yeah, the little gypsies. But it's come in handy so far. Alright, so we got on a bus which took us to the river essentially. And we're just walking over into the area called Tresevere right now. Where we're going to explore a little bit. And it's still raining. Hopefully not for long. We're walking into blue sky. Chris was really grumpy about sharing an umbrella so he got his own now. Because I get drenched holding it in. I'm an umbrella princess. I'm also carrying all of our stuff so I'm more important. Okay, we're walking through Tresevere now. It finally stopped raining so we put the umbrellas down. I just got a little to-go coffee and spilled it all over myself. Because I slipped. Yay for me. But anyways, the streets in here are really cute. We finally found- It was kind of strange when we first got in here. It wasn't really what we were expecting. But I feel like now we're in the cute area where all the good restaurants are and stuff. And so I'll show you around. I was just saying to Chris, all the streets in here are so beautiful. But there's graffiti everywhere. And it kind of takes away from it which is really sad. Look at this. We just walked over to Vatican City and we're checking it out. It's pretty crazy. Okay, we just hiked- Oh, I just dropped my bag. We just hiked up to this viewpoint. I'm not sure what it's called. But the- yeah, sure, if you know what it is. It's a pretty sweet view of Rome from here. Let me show you. Tarazza Genicolo. That's where we are. Stunning. Yeah, the view is really pretty. It's so humid though. We're both like sweating. Also another fun fact I learned today thanks to Encyclopedia Chris is that Vatican City, where we were before, where the Vatican is, is actually its own country. Now you know. If you didn't already know, I didn't know. We just came across this very old fountain. Built in the year 109, according to Encyclopedia Chris. It's a really pretty one. Chris is just drinking out of one of the local fountains. High quality H2O. High quality. Looks old. Delicious. Very fresh. Fresh, tasty, cold water. We found our lunch spot. It's called Tonarella. And it was recommended to me by friends. And their pasta looks unbelievable. Just ordered some drinks. To start. The menu's massive. Best aperol spritz I've had so far in Italy. So good. Our pastas just came. I got carbonara today. Chris got spaghetti and meatballs. It's really good. Alright, Tonarella was bomb. The pasta was really good. The gluten-free pasta was really good. But the portion sizes were huge. Definitely go really hungry or share a dish between two people. Because we both didn't finish. This is what the restaurant looks like on the outside. Alright, so we're on to our next touristy little thing. And we decided to come see what it's called. Circus Maximus. Circus Maximus, which is where they used to do the like, chariot racing and stuff. It's like this big... Chariot racing stadium. Stadium. It's like a big Coliseum stadium situation. Let me show you what's left of it. This is it, guys. This... Is it. I'm sure it was amazing at one point. But now it's just a mud pit. Apparently it used to seat... How many people? 150? Over 150,000. Yeah. They probably used to sit right here. Where these flowers are. Stunning. Beautiful. Alright, next up. On the... Stop list of things to see today. We're going up to see the... Shit, what was it called? What did you call it? The big... Big bloody building. The big bloody building. We're going to the top of it. We didn't realize yesterday, but there's a viewpoint at the top that my friend told me about. That you can go to and you can see like, the whole city. So we're gonna go check it out. Hooray! We went home and had... Our step count is well over 20,000 at this point. So Chris had a nap. I just chilled out for a bit. And now we're back out. And we're on the gelato hunt. Okay, I got my gelato. I already ate it, but I got like, Bounty flavor. Like, the Bounty coconut chocolate bar. It was delicious. And then we just went into this really random store. I know, I should've... I should've walked in there. It's like this... It's essentially like a candy and treat store. It's called... OD Store. It's right behind me. And it was massive. It just kept going and going. And they had all kinds of crazy flavors of different stuff. So Chris got sweet chili Cheetos. And he just ate the first one. And he said they're good. Can I smell them? Can I smell? They smell like... I don't know if I can. Yeah, they're good. They taste like... Like, what's... You know those chips that are... Sweet chili... Sour cream? Tastes like those. Popcorn version. Okay, somehow we made room for dinner. So we found a dinner spot. And I think we're gonna share a pizza. Because we're both in awe. Alright, the gluten-free pizza, as you can probably tell, is delicious. And we got a green salad too. Oh my gosh, that gluten-free pizza was so good. I didn't actually get a name of what that restaurant was. But their pizza was bomb. It's probably the same in most places. But that was one of the best gluten-free crusts I've had in a while. And we were sitting next to a couple. And we kept overhearing their conversation. And I was like, Chris, I think they're Australian. And it was this really lovely couple who we ended up chatting with. And sure enough, they're from, like, not that far from you. From where you're from. And they're, like, doing a trip through Italy that's very similar to ours. Which we haven't even talked about. So tonight when we get back to our Airbnb, we'll run you through the rest of our Italy trip. Because Rome is just the first stop. Okay, so. We're home. At our Airbnb. And I just... Did my little skincare routine and got in bed. And... Realizing now my shirt's inside out. Cool. But, okay. So the outline for the rest of our time in Italy is basically... Today was our last day in Rome. Tomorrow morning we're picking up another rental car. If you watched our Portugal vlog, you know that driving rental cars in big cities like this is scary. Which is why we're just picking it up tomorrow. So we're picking it up in the morning. And then we're going to head down. We're spending the next three nights in Priano on the Amalfi Coast. So we're going to spend the day kind of, like, taking our time driving down there tomorrow. What? There's a Christmas tree? Thank you for turning all my lights off. So anyways, we're heading down to Amalfi Coast tomorrow. And we're probably going to stop in maybe Sorrento and Naples tomorrow. Check those out. We've both never been. This is like the leg of the trip. Are you okay? I'm fine. Oh my god. This is the leg of the trip. Neither of us have been down to Amalfi before, so we're really excited. And then we head inland towards Puglia. We're spending two nights over on the coast of Puglia. But in the middle of the country, essentially, we're going to stop for one night in Matera. Matera. Which is like this really cool town. What are the houses made of? Like, the houses are like built into the hill, basically, right? Into the mountains. Yeah. Why are you laughing at me? Are you writing them a book? Maybe. I wonder, would you guys read a book if I wrote it? Jeez. This is pretty much a book. Oh my god. You're going to see it. We go to Matera, then we go to Puglia. Yes. Bye bye. Oh my god, he's so mean. Do that again. Yeah, come on. We're driving the right side of the road. Who knows what the speed limits are. But anyway, a few rocks in Matera. A bit of water over in Monopoly. You might see it, though. Alright, I guess we're going to bed. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Good morning, you guys. We just picked up our rental car, and we are on the road already. Alright, we just passed Naples. We didn't stop there. We tried to stop in Pompeii, but to go visit the ruins there, it was pretty expensive, and it felt like kind of a full day thing, which we didn't quite have time for. And now we're just driving along the coast towards Sorrento. Alright, we just got to Sorrento. We found a lunch spot. We already ate our lunch. I didn't get any footage of it before, but here's the after. We're kind of on like the main strip in Sorrento, and everything is so beautiful. Those are orange trees. So pretty. Alright, we're back in the car, on our way to Priano now, which is where we're staying for the next three nights. It's like the town next to Positano, which everyone's a lot more familiar with. But Priano looks equally beautiful. We're just driving through these like amazing mountains, and all the towns are like tucked into the mountains. They're so, so pretty. We had a bit of a dramatic time in Sorrento. We got backed into. There wasn't much damage to our car, but it was stressful trying to drive through there. But it's all good. The lady was really nice. We did it. It was an accident, so it's fine. I'm actually kind of freaking out. We just found a good little parking spot to check out the view, and it is so good. Oh my god. That's Positano. It even looks cool through these vines. It's so beautiful. It looks like a painting. There wasn't enough room for me to get out of the car, so I'm just hanging out at the side of it. The roads here are so incredibly narrow. Like this is for two cars, and then there's big buses going through and stuff. It's pretty cray-cray. By the way, we're in Priano now, and this is where we're staying. And you can see. I might not be able to show. Oh yeah, there's Positano back there. It's just the next town over. Okay, we made it to our spot. This one we also booked on Booking.com. I'll link everything at the very end for you guys, but this room is so cute. Look, it's got like little blue pillows and stuff, and then Chris is in the bathroom right now, but the bathroom is really cute too. And then this is our balcony. Sadly it just started to rain, but I'm going to sit out here anyways because it's covered and protected, and it's so warm out. It's like 28 degrees or something, Celsius. So I'm just going to sit out here and enjoy. And maybe we'll just go to the market and pick up a bottle of wine and have our own little happy hour out here. The lighting's also really nice for photos. Me thinking ahead. There's a thunderstorm rolling in. The lightning is like literally right there. Oh yeah, you can see the rain line. It's like right there. It's about to get really wild in here. Okay, so we found a dinner spot. It's literally right across the street from our hotel in Priano, and it was recommended to us by the people that were staying at their place. Our plates just came out. They're massive. They look so good. This is gluten-free pasta. And we got a lemon risotto. And their house wine comes in like these cute little pitchers that are like the name of the restaurant's Costa Diva. And it comes out of those kegs, and it's nine euros for a half liter. And they brought me gluten-free bread too. Yum. Also, all of the dishes. All the dishes are from across the street. It's like attached to our hotel. It's still raining outside, but I'll show you when we go outside of this restaurant. It's so cute. They have like actual lemon trees all above the outside seating, which is where we would normally sit. And then you can't see right now, obviously, because it's dark out, but there's the ocean right there. It's so dangerous here when they give you parm, when you ask for like a side of like parmesan, they give you like the whole jar of parmesan. And it's like, how do you not just like dump the whole thing on yourself? Because it's real good parmesan. That's dangerous right there. Dipped back into the parm jar. No, don't. It is not raining today, so we're just heading out. We're going to go. This is the view. You can't really see anything. There we go. It's kind of cloudy, but not raining. It's fairly bright though. So, we are just going to head out and find a scooter rental and zip around a little bit and check out the area. This is my little outfit today. It's Jerf Avenue set. I've been excited to wear this for days. This little bag again. And I'm just going to wear flip flops. I'm vlogging on my phone today because I'm trying to upload some footage on my camera, but the Wi-Fi everywhere in Europe sucks. So, anyways. And then Chris's outfit is very cute too. It's from Zara again. You've probably seen this shirt before. He's got a good rotation. Also, I promised I'd show you the bathroom yesterday and I never did, but that's the little bathroom. It's so cute. We made it to our scooter rental. So, we're in Positano and we found a little spot to grab coffee and a cocktail. We're right by the beach. So, we just came out. I got a little salad. Chris got a stunning margarita pizza. Breakfast of champions. We just found the cutest little shop and we picked up some Aperol Spritz in a bottle and they were only two euros each to take to the beach because the sun is coming out, people. Guys, we named our scooter Sky because she's so cute and sky blue. Beep, beep. Vroom, vroom. All right, we found the stairs to the little local beach that our friends recommended we go to because apparently it's always quiet. It's very steep. All right, we're like a million stairs in so far, but this place is looking pretty dope. Almost there. He's going in. You going in? I was ready to catch the dive. The weather is getting nicer, but there is one rain cloud that just won't screw off, but once it does, look how bright it is. I'm squinting. Look at the blue sky. I'll show you. Blue. There's Positano. Can confirm. Aperol Spritz in a bottle. Delicious. Very strong though. We were both saying we could add a little bit of soda to it probably, but they're definitely worth the two euros. Our scooter is so cute. So cute. Update. We are on our way home from dinner. I did not vlog at all in Ravello. Now it's pitch black. You can't even see us. It was beautiful up there, but then it started to rain, so we just kind of headed back down and then we went for dinner. And that place is called Kasai. K-A-S-A-I. And it was really good. The food was awesome. The servers were really nice and the gluten-free pasta was delicious. Linguine. We walked up to that place. It was like only a 10 minute walk from our place, but it was mostly stairs the whole way up. So now we have approximately 500. So now we have the delight of going down 500 stairs, which is equally hard on the knees at our age. Good morning, you guys. We are just on our way out the door to go find some breakfast. We got up early for the sunrise this morning and then went back to sleep. No footage of the sunrise for you. Sorry. But it was beautiful. It's fully sunny today. So we just went to the little market, picked up some snacks to take to the beach later. Some more of those little apple spritz bottles and some cheese and meats. So after we go get a coffee and a little recce, we're going to go find a little beach spot. Found our little breakfast spot. We're in Priano. There's Positano. Got some coffees. We always, we've been ordering Americanos, but then we ask for it with milk and they always bring steamed milk. So it makes it almost like a little latte. It's so delicious. Just made our way to the beach. We're at like a little beach club today. It's really cute. The private beach, well, it wasn't a private, the beach club was busy and expensive. And there's like a public area at that beach too, but it was like completely full. So we found a little spot around the corner that's not really a beach. It's more of just like a dock, but it's really nice and quiet and private. We love it. Here's our little snack bucket. So we got some cheese. I forget what kind it was. We have it at home. And then this is like some pancetta. I think it was pancetta. And then we got some fresh tomatoes. And then this is the bread from dinner last night. I put it in my purse and we took it home. And this is our little snack box. Had my first dip in the Mediterranean and it was so lovely. So salty. It smells amazing. I'm just so happy. Got a dinner spot in Positano. Just ordered some mains and drinks. Finally having spaghetti bongole for the first time. I just got cavalloni. Okay, dinner was tasty. I don't know what the name of the restaurant is, but if I remember, I'll put it down below. We're just on the beach now. We're gonna go for a little sunset swim. And I might take a couple photos in my little outfit. This dress is from Meshki, by the way. Don't remember if I mentioned that already before, but the light is stunning right now. And there's lots of other photo shoots going on. So we're just gonna get amongst it. I actually can't believe that this is real. I feel like it's been on my Pinterest board for the last million years. And I'm so happy to be here. We're going swimming! Yeah. Swimming. Quick change into the swimsuits. And I think we're gonna go in. It's a little bit windy, but I think the photos will be good. And it'll be a nice little cool down after dinner. That was so magical! Look at it! My towel service. Thank you kindly. Okay, we just popped into this little convenience... It's like a convenience store slash market in the heart of Paso Tano. And they had so much stuff in there. It was awesome. And we've seen these everywhere. We saw them in Rome a lot. But it's an actual frozen lemon filled with gelato. Good morning, you guys. We are just in the process of getting our life packed up because we're leaving Amalfi Coast today. And we're heading inland to Matera, which is that really old town I mentioned before. So we're gonna kind of just travel on the coast a little bit today and explore on our way into Matera. So we'll bring you guys along for a little bit today, but then we're gonna continue on this Italian adventure in our next vlog. So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that one. But yeah, we'll be getting on the road shortly. So that last little town we drove through was Amalfi, and then this one is Atranti, which is also very cute. We drove through both of these towns on our scooter the other day on the way up to Ravello, but it was raining, so I had my camera tucked away, which is why we got no footage of it. But it's literally so picturesque. It looks like a storybook everywhere. Look how narrow these roads are. Now picture two buses crossing paths on here. It happens constantly. See what I mean? Two buses going side by side. Wild. Careful. If you do rent a car and drive along here, highly recommend not getting something bigger than a Fiat. That's what we're in, and it's nice and small, and you can get out of the way of buses and scooters and everything. I would definitely, definitely not recommend getting a bigger car. Roads here are so windy, and we're so high up in the cliffs, it's actually giving me... I'm scared of heights, if you don't already know that, and I can't even look over the edge at some parts because it's so steep. Oh my god, look at that. Trying to stop and have lunch at, it's called Vietri Sul Mare. Okay, we couldn't find any parking in that little town at all. We drove around for like 10 minutes, so we gave up. We're in the next town, which is actually a big city, Salerno. We're just going to stop for lunch here, and then hit the road. Just got a little crazy salad, and Chris got this pizza. It literally smells so good. It's definitely got truffle on it, right? Alright, we're officially on the road to Matera now. We're about two hours away, so we're going to wrap up this vlog, but we wanted to just do a little highlight of some final takeaways from Amalfi Coast. This was our first time there, so we just wanted to wrap up some suggestions, I guess, of if it's going to be your first time there as well. So the first one is, I don't know if we mentioned this before, but we stayed in Priano, not Positano. And I would definitely recommend that to everybody. Yeah, more of a local vibe. The people were so nice. All the restaurant owners and workers and the people we stayed at the Airbnb of, everyone was just so friendly. The food was better in Priano than Positano. Yeah, and better priced. Yeah, we just had a really good experience. And if you do go to that Airbnb,