 my name is Sonali welcome to a new Italy vlog and unfortunately the last one we are on our last leg of the trip so we did Positano and a bunch of day trips throughout there and then we went to Florence Venice and now we are in Rome Italy which is probably one of my favorite places because I did this like two weeks study abroad thing with EF learning tours and if you guys remember that that was like when I was like a junior in college so it's been a couple of years since I've been to Rome but I loved every second of it while I was here and it makes it so much more special now that I'm here with Ryan and we're staying in the best location shout out to Saunders because this location is right next to the Spanish steps so it's pretty central to everything and I can't wait to explore for our official day one in Rome so I quickly mentioned Saunders and I wanted to give you kind of like the rundown because I know when you're watching this video hopefully you'll be planning your Italy trip very soon and there are so many options for places to stay that it can get really overwhelming honestly Saunders is a better way to stay for the modern savvy traveler and this whole place is so stunning I feel like all the finishing touches are very like modern and elegant while still being really minimal and you guys know I love my aesthetics they also have modern service such as like one tap wi-fi I mean sometimes it's like actually annoying to like enter the password I mean that's such a first world problem but like it's very easy and so convenient to just like tap and connect and then one of my favorite things about staying in Saunders is that you can actually unlock your door from your iPhone and it's just annoying like bringing around like a hotel key or just like a metal key like I don't want to ever lose it I don't want to ever feel responsible for losing it so you can actually unlock the main door and your room door with just your iPhone last night I actually asked the concierge downstairs where he would recommend for us to eat because it was pretty late I think it was like already 940 and I didn't know anywhere that would be open that would be good you know we only have certain amount of meals to eat so I want them all to be so good and so he recommended this place just down the street like 10 minute walk and it was really good we got carbonara or matru shana and we got the steak dish and they actually have like neighborhood guides so no matter where you are Saunders actually in like 35 plus cities they have guides for you if you've never been there before I personally think the main difference between this and other short-term rental companies are that it just feels so much more secure and safe because even when I was checking in it was just like such a seamless process but when you know you're with other short-term rental companies sometimes I've heard of horror stories that like they cancel last minute or something happened to the security system but I feel like that would never really happen with Saunders so that's amazing that I feel really safe here we honestly don't have much planned today it's currently noon because we wanted to sleep in I feel like we've been go go go the past few days because we were literally in Venice for less than 24 hours so we didn't have like much time to sleep in we wanted to see the city but today we definitely took advantage of the time that we have in Rome we only have three days here but I feel like that's a good amount of time especially because I've been here before I can show Ryan like all the good hot spots for past trips I've been a planner I need to know what I'm doing to the minute and honestly we have not done this trip and it's been so much more relaxing and honestly like going into it with no expectations feels a lot better so I was like stressing like two weeks out because I was like I don't have anything planned I didn't even have like some of the places that we were staying booked two weeks out so I was freaking out but honestly everything worked out and like I was saying like we want to eat good food especially like the meals that we do have in each city and I was kind of stressing about that because I wanted to like go to the most perfect places but I feel like conveniently we stumbled upon some of the most amazing restaurants in each city and sometimes when I had a little bit more time like the day before I would just go on Pinterest really quick and search an itinerary up and see like you know what's the best gelato in Florence or something like that so this is me telling you to not stress out too much about planning your trip unless it's the ticket thing because in Florence we weren't able to see the museum where the David statue was because the tickets were all sold out for the days that we were there it was like literally open or there was more tickets literally the day after we were going to leave so that kind of sucked but I think that's the only thing that you should really worry about is more of the touristy attractions that you'll need to purchase tickets to but other than that it's just really nice to be able to like almost get lost in the city and just explore on your own so that's what we're about to do not sure what we're gonna do today but as always I'll keep you guys updated also you guys know I had so many cute outfits for this freaking trip planned but it was either too cold or now it's too hot at 75 we like went outside to the terrace and I felt the sun beaming on me I was like I cannot I need like wear no clothes if possible but um this set actually had like a matching long-slave white top that was so cute but I was like honestly I just need to wear a tank top like I said comfort over everything okay that's the goal of this trip flowers are so pretty everywhere oh my god it looks like the flowers were just put there by a florist especially like down there right there so pretty flowers don't stop there they go all the way down to the Spanish sets I wonder if they're here every spring because I feel like the last time I went here there wasn't all these flowers down the middle it's from Saundra we're staying at and the reason why it's so well known is because it's the widest and the longest staircase in Europe I'd say right next to the Spanish steps is Piazza di Spania and what a piazza is it's just like a marketplace or like a square and I know they have a lot of them in Rome they're like all different kinds of names and they're all so stunning and I think the last time I was here my favorite one was piazza no fauna because that was close to where I was studying for the two weeks and there's like really good gelato over there should we find somewhere to eat going so great and then I got this sandwich with prosciutto coliseum um we might do that another day should we just walk to it right now as well we can go in later if you want um I don't know how we do it in Austin because it's really freaking hot here it's like 75 degrees but the sun is just like baking us also I lost my sunglasses like in Pompeii so I have been trying to find sunglasses but I'm like okay I can literally buy good ones for like $13 on Amazon when I get back but these are like $20 or 20 euros and they're really ugly so they're just been holding off but I might have to cave today here's where we just were and right over there is the coliseum and then the ruins are like right over there so you can see it's all really close together I mean that is still a far walk but at least you can see it it's a lot later because Ryan has not been feeling so hot like even in the morning he was just not feeling good apparently he threw up like this whole morning and I didn't even wake up which is very surprising to me that's why he got Black Christ during breakfast because he just didn't really like want anything else but I was like you need to eat something and then we did a little bit of sightseeing he still wasn't feeling that great so we came home took a nap and he showered I still don't think he's feeling that good but I just feel so bad you sure you want to go somewhere well at least we have a nice bed to lay in if you do he said he wants to just walk around a little bit so I put my blazer dress on this is from princess poly it's from my latest princess poly haul so the link will be under that video I didn't have time to steam it or iron it but it is giving me very much hey now hey now vibes and so I think I'm gonna take a picture you know the tribe we found and I'm gonna embarrass Ryan and bring out my instabaddy light Ryan thinks he has gray hairs let me see let me see you like over here no like I pulled the one out over here you're just gonna be a salt and pepper daddy so bad don't you I honestly don't even know where we're eating right now but I just went in somewhere because I was so over it I got some spaghetti madoro and then trying out some french fries there's like some store lighting right into it it's on the brave so fucking busy like busy after like let's take a photo we did the pantheon we had breakfast at the sonder and then we randomly like found this like really designer mall it was like actually really cool and got solid smelling some same nurses yeah actually he bought him those but I'm gonna steal them because yeah some other ones and I lost mine in Pompeii I think I already told you guys and I was trying to buy a hat out like one of the random convenience stores but I just didn't love it it was like 10 euros though so I could have done it but anyways we're gonna walk to the pantheon start our day I mean it's pretty late in the day and I don't even really mind so we're getting later starts the day but we are going to the coliseum tonight okay we're going to the coliseum tonight we have a tour at 4 p.m. and they have like these fountains all around and you can drink from them they're like cold like actually really good water kind of crazy but I mean there might be stuff going around but these sunglasses look stupid on me because I feel like they do okay we're close to pantheon gotta keep walking this is the pantheon the pantheon and it's probably the coolest thing we've seen in realm and then we walked outside and everyone was eating sandwiches and they looked amazing so we decided to ask them where they got them and they pointed us over here so we need to find it but they looked really freaking good you know we're kind of hungry it seems like the wine is putting along but it might be worth it are there two there looks to be two right I think that was the most stressful thing in my life there's so many people yeah no English at all the menu was not in English well there was I guess in a New York menu so we tried to look at that very stressful they like so many people were in there and it was just a small space no English but I think I ordered the right thing I ordered the tartufo duet which is a truffle too and then what'd you get fabulous fabulous so yeah I just I honestly just wanted like raw prosciutto and truffle so I'm gonna see it hey I'm not nasty we ate our sandwiches and now my group of my mouth is just like torna so bad because the bread was actually kind of hard it looked soft but it was a lie but it was it was still pretty good it was just like a lot of meat but we are in piazza novana right now and we've been literally sitting here for the past like 20 minutes I think it's chilling because again we're going on the tour of the coliseum it's self-guided but it's like you know you don't like walk through it and stuff like that so I just need to chill like I need to break the sun drains me so and then we're gonna hit gelato wake ourselves up and then possibly take like the tram or the bus over the coliseum so we don't have to walk too far I just got so much longer I got gelato shop like caramel and cookie and what'd you get other than that flavor like gelato uh the gelato cream or something yeah I get more than that that gelato is probably my favorite flavor that we've gotten so far but I think that flavor is only at that one place it's called the frigidarium flavor but we're currently waiting at the bus stop to take the bus all the way over to the coliseum I did not want to walk for 30 minutes I'm pretty tired and we gotta save our walking for the tour itself so we're gonna get on the bus and I downloaded this app called move it it's pretty easy to follow along you can also use like apple maps too but I feel like this is kind of more accurate in it inside the coliseum we did a tour through theatours.com I found some random one and we just kind of like went with it it is a self-guided tour through the coliseum and the roman forum which I don't know if we're gonna do it because at first I thought it would be like kind of like the headphone thing where they would give us something to listen to but I'm sorry about the referee just walked out the stairs but it's not so you just kind of like going by your pretty much like an entry ticket but just with a fast pass since you're with a small group at first they just like light you in really quickly so we're in coliseum let's go check it out. The only right over here is where like the gladiators animals hung out before they would go on it's kind of like a green room I guess. I just finished this tour we didn't realize we actually walked upstairs again um the roman forum too but we like kind of like walked past that and since there was no really like information being given like throughout the tour we were like okay we already did it so we came to probably the most instagramable place in Rome or maybe just like in front of the coliseum but came here last time to take my photo insert picture here and so I'm gonna try to like recreate it or maybe just do another pose but I want another photo here maybe I'll get one with you let's do it. Also pro tip once you come out of the coliseum you can come upstairs through the train station so you don't have to like walk around the winding roads to get right here. Ryan's turn even though he didn't ask for this I'm making him do it. Ryan just got a powering it's the best thing after a day of sightseeing it hits different and this one tastes like those little kool-aid we call them blue boys you can like literally get them out of the dollar store at least me and Ryan call them blue boys but yeah they're like the twist-off like really sugary ones this tastes like it doesn't really even taste like a powering but I'm not mad about that anyways I wanted to give you guys like directions on how to get to where we just were so right behind us is the coliseum so turn with me Ryan come on come on okay coliseum and then turn over here this is like the bus station or the train station I don't even know but that that door all the way over there you take a left and then there's just there's no up all the way over there so that's how you can find that little instagram fun just got ready for the night we came back because Ryan had to send a few emails and I wanted to charge my phone and get my portable charger because it was a low battery and this is the outfit I'm in love with this blazer I don't know if I showed you guys I think I showed it in my last vlog but I don't know well the last week of my life this is from showpo and it's the best fitting blazer I've ever found has these little shoulder pads in it but it's also so relaxed but structured and it's oversized and it's so perfect and then this top is from princess poly which was in my last princess poly haul got my Abercrombie jeans and like always wearing my new balance sneakers they are just the most comfortable shoes ever and so we're heading to Tristeveret for tonight's dinner Ryan's looking spicy tonight look at spicy look at his outfit no you look good babe did you watch change yeah it's like the italian leather it's a santone fratter day it's a fratter day perfect thank you got the house wine and he got the house red show yeah it's cold cheers let's drink cox it's not that abrasive it's like cold Ryan took me to the water it's a pretty little bridge it's not even a hammer they're like you ain't recording that's why I know you're drunk I'm not hammered I'm all wine drunk it's so dark how are you recording this also this flashing light it's gonna freak me out maybe that's a sign we should go home go down there no we should go home let's go inspect let's go and run any don't pop your ass we're usually in america they would have like brunch people just don't want to join pasta it just beats in pasta and pastries just like a whole box ton of carbs and I was I was really trying to look for a breakfast place but I don't know I couldn't find one so we just had some croissants yeah we did have a late start so maybe it was earlier but I'm not really sure but now we are going to the leica store I used to have an obsession with like getting a leica camera if you guys know it's like a certain brand of camera it's very like prestigious it's not even like in the realm of like other camera brands like can't yeah it's like a Lamborghini of cameras and I've never gone into a store so I'm very excited to check it out we just went into like a store and we saw like all the cameras in person and unfortunately yeah not all of them because unfortunately the one that I was interested in the color version is like being used for an activity outside I guess so there's there's one that's only black and white it's that like a cue and it was like a 1.7 lens you can't change the lens but like I don't know if it was a zoom lens or not but anyways it was like such a good lens 47 megapixels it looked so crisp and clear and I just really wanted to try out the color lens but um anyways guess how much the camera was I kind of knew it was hella expensive because I had the stream like years ago and I was like there's no fucking way I'm buying this camera it's five thousand four hundred euros so probably one more and you can't change the lens that's the point just executive lines like so like I'm telling you guys it's like top tier it's like she should have the gallery in there the photos were so clear and crisp I didn't even know if I would like use it for like photography like actually my business or maybe I would but I just think for like even videos it looks so good there's this one European vlogger her name is Yanni Deller she vlogs or used to vlog with Leica and it was like a cute cute it was a 2 and I think it was just like a cute but anyways so yeah my heart's crashed because I couldn't even try out the color and it's so expensive but one day I'm speaking it into existence this bottle came with the room it's sprays all over me I might kill you I thought it was gonna spray it that's beautiful that's steam what's it called steam white the pour it says it's a muskado that's so good it's like sweet oh I mean guys I don't do this shit all the time yeah it's good that's what you think I was to actually buy another suitcase which we would have to pay for like me five bucks on the way back which is kind of annoying but at least we wouldn't have to worry about like how much our bags make because we know it's gonna be over because on the way here both of our bags were 51 pounds so we're gonna buy a suitcase but we found this duffel that was way cheaper than all the suitcases we're just gonna like stuff this one and check it and now since Ryan thinks we have more space he wants to buy what some shoes I see they have in here I don't know where to look I think it's that color color all right they don't have them in America so see if I can find some I can be your souvenir yeah back in the Rena Santé we go I asked them what people were to find the shoes they didn't know where to find the shoes but they had a jacket and they had shirts and everything so this will be ordering online internationally so you can you just have to pay more to ship it I don't know I tried to go in they didn't have a US site or anything so I'll know when I get to the US if they're gonna be able to like oh yeah I was like researching so much on which restaurant to go to because it's our last meal here so I wanted it to be really good and I thought we were gonna go to Tristeverry but we like saw this place and it looked so nice and they're just like you know what looks good let's just eat here so we're at this place to let you know if it's any good or if Ryan gets some more standing I also heard the bus passes so I was like yeah that's gonna be the worst idea if we ate here yeah we should probably go home a little bit earlier tonight um because I still have some work to do and we got a pack they're gonna pay for like 20 hours you can't work in the plane I'm just like not a person who works on the plane I just fall asleep and I wake up and I fall asleep and I eat and I fall asleep I'm just asleep for the whole day so looking forward to it but anyways yeah so I'm really excited about my special class they asked if we had a reservation we didn't but they got us in because dinner only starts at 7 so we're in order drinks at 6.52 so very excited for our last meal hopefully it's really good the last supper in Rome the Romans do it the Romans do world puns from for Rome I feel like Rome has all the puns on an evening in Rome do as the Romans do Rome wasn't Rome wasn't built in a day I feel like there's so many puns for Rome those aren't puns right they're the same yeah okay we're gonna look at the drink menu and I was really good the pasta was really really good we walked 20 minutes for this because I really liked the flavor so cheers for our last night in Rome I showered I washed my hair got into my bougie pajamas that I've been wearing in the past like three nights but I don't even care I've been just packing for the past few minutes and it seems a little too good to be true because I packed so fast but like on the way home packing is so much easier because you literally just all throw it in the bag plus since we got the duffel that definitely like saves some space and I'm not just shoving everything in one bag which is awesome but from now on we're gonna start traveling with the little travel scale because we still don't know how much weight our bags are so it kind of is still like a gamble when you're going to the airport and you're like is it gonna be under 50 are they gonna yell at me are we gonna have to do the embarrassing thing where we open our bags in front of everyone and like put stuff in the other bag that is like literally the worst thing ever but it was our last night in Rome and it was our last day in Italy and this whole Italy trip was so amazing and if you guys want to see more content I pretty much did many vlogs for every day in Italy on my TikTok and I also made a whole Italy highlight on my Instagram and there will also be a lot of feed content and like honestly so much more TikToks to come because I took so many like vertical videos now that vertical videos are a thing now because of TikTok and Instagram real so I'm definitely gonna like repurpose that footage some way somehow probably with like just written TikTok trends in the future so definitely go follow me on both platforms they are so underscore gnarly without the G and before you leave this video don't forget to subscribe down below I'm so excited for summer in Austin so there will be many more weekly vlogs coming your way and I will see y'all at my next one bye