“Spring break” came a little early here. We had our first
week break this past week and of course spent it traveling. If any of you have
me on facebook or even follow me on Instagram, I am sure you were quiet ready
for me to get back to Limoges and stop with all the pictures, but I just couldn’t
help myself! We had an amazing week!
The first few days, we spent them around Limoges, checking
out the fine arts museum and the gardens and really just enjoying the town. I
am not a huge art lover, but the second floor of this museum really stole my
heart! There were so many absolutely beautiful paintings. I even got the names
of a few of my faves. My number one artist was Elie Lascaux! The details in his
paintings are amazing. Fun fact of the day, he was born in Limoges! A few
others were Paul Ranson and Suzanne Valadon. If you ever get a chance,
definitely look them up! Helpful hint though, Suzanne Valadon’s Blue Room is
the one I saw that I fell in love with and I would stick to googling that! Out behind the museum is a beautiful garden.
Nice view of the city and really just made you feel so relaxed. People were out
on the benches reading and have picnics, it really is impossible to not be at
peace there!
Now for the interesting part! Wednesday, we took off to
Rome! Longest day of travelling and worth every single second of it! Rome is
amazing! We didn’t get there until late that night but Thursday we were up and
ready to go! Unfortunately for us, we spent the first few hours of our day
completely lost! I think it is safe to say that the entire day we were pretty
much lost. But that didn’t stop us. We found our way to the Vatican and roamed
through various parts. We went through St Peter’s Basilica first. The amount of
detail and art in one place is truly amazing! Everything is so grand and beautiful.
The Roman’s spared no detail! After a few hours in there, we went on to The
Vatican Museum. Let me just say that if you are ever going, do it the other way
around! The museum is huge and honestly absolutely amazing and we spent so much
time in the basilica that we missed out on a few things in the museum because we
were just so exhausted. But we still hit the highlights and spent plenty of
time in those areas. For me, looking at The School of Athens was one of my tops
moments. I spent tons of money taking a class at Tech to learn about all of
these things and I remember seeing all of the famous art works in the Vatican
Museum in this class and even thinkings “yeah yeah yeah that will never apply
to me” and there I was standing in front of this magnificent piece of art and
suddenly that class I took seemed so worth it! Then there was the Sistine
Chapel. There are not enough words to describe the feeling in that room. I
could stay in there for hours just admiring everything. There is not an inch of
that room that isn’t painted I don’t think. It was everything, and so much more
honestly, than people say it is! Lucky us, the rest of our time it was raining,
but that didn’t stop us. We enjoyed the Coliseum and even got to actually sit
in some of the parts of it. My favorite part of the entire trip was definitely
the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. That alone is a full days’ worth of exploring!
Once again, everything was so grand and just mind blowing that people built
these things so long ago and here they still are.
We made it our goal to go to a different restaurant every
day and try the pasta. For a girl who eats nothing but pasta typically, I was
in heaven!! Our last night there, we stumbled upon this little restaurant near
the Spanish steps and decided to just go on in. Best decision we ever made!
Homemade ravioli, great Italian wine, homemade tiramisu, and of course a nice
latte to finish off our meal. I am pretty sure I ate enough in those few days
to last me a lifetime! But like they say, when in Rome right?! This honestly isn’t
going to do Rome justice, but it was a nice start and a great first trip! I am
already looking forward to the next! If anyone has any suggestions on places to
go or things to do, I would really love to hear them! Until next time!