A Love Story in Italy | Ep. 1: A Gay Couple's Guide to Rome

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@michaelgabriel7919 Ай бұрын

I did Rome in late May 2022 (by myself)... and it was amazing. I love Italy! I spent a few nights in the 'gay area' by the Colosseum too. Out Bar was fun after 7pm... met a few UK tourists, a couple from Canada... and had a great time. That night the local Rome football club won a big match (championship?) and the city went wild... trying to make my way back to my airbnb was something I will never forget. I left the area around the Colosseum... and rode down and around to the Circus Maximus... and the entire site was a mass of Romans celebrating the victory. At one point I stopped my e-scooter and started walking with the masses. It was something... all those football fans enjoying their victory... a lot of revelry... and a lot of cute straight men hugging anyone they could get their arms around.🙂

@LavenderLingo Ай бұрын

Oh my gosh! We loved that you shared this with us!! 🖤🖤🖤 we had a very similar experience in Milan which will be our next video. They won the a big football game and the entire city went craaazzzzyyy!!! It was so amazing to see that and get to share their culture with them. We stayed like a 5 min walk to the gay street near the colosseum but we found a lot of other really nice gay bars that we had a blast at. I think we talk about them in our final Italy video cuz we return to Rome for one more day after the cinque terre. Italy is a place you could definitely do on your own. The people are so nice and welcoming and there are so many people to meet and see where things go. Again, thank you for sharing your story! We love it!

@giovanniserafino1731 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your trip to Roma! It was wonderful to see you having such a good time in our capital. . As you found out, we Italians don’t speak a lot of English. Rome has some of the best restaurants in Italy, I’m sorry you did not have a good experience. Unlike some “ Italian American” dishes , our food is not overly salty or spicy . However, it is always best to avoid restaurants in the tourist sections, specially if the staff speaks English, and you are surrounded with other tourists. If you are going to “do it on your own” again, it is always easier to have a basic knowledge of the language. Perhaps just enough to get around and to ask a local where the bests restaurants are to be found! Come back soon! Viva l’Italia! 🇮🇹Ciao.

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

It was so amazing! And we had such a wonderful time there. Truthfully, there has been two vacations we have been on that we feel changed us as people (every trip does a little but they were just different) and that was Thailand and Italy. Fortunately, we are very casual and laid back and don’t mind that we have difficulty understanding certain things… that’s part of the fun of traveling. We like learning the language before and we try but it’s also to kinda fun just do our best with the little bit we do know. We showed more of our failures with the language than we did our successes haha We’re just there for the experience and are thankful to get to share someone else’s culture for a while. The restaurants weren’t bad!! It was just different for us! And that’s okay with us! Haha we were just expecting something different. Every meal felt so clean and fresh and we always had an amazing time. We try not to look up “best places to eat”… instead we randomly walk across places and go in when we like the atmosphere. It’s our favorite type of date. So sometimes it’s a hit and sometimes it’s a miss and that’s okay with us. Thanks for sharing your country with us! And we can’t wait to return at some point In the future! We have so much world to see! Best of travel wishes to you too! 🖤

@giovanniserafino1731 2 ай бұрын

@@LavenderLingo We wait for you both with open arms and much love! ❤️

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

You’re awesome! Thanks for the support 😘🖤🥰

@umberto7641 2 ай бұрын

I am very ill this week. Just commenting for the algorithm: gonna come back soon with comments and more, if you don’t mind! Keep up the excellent work 😘❤️

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

haha you're amazing! We hope you feel better soon! 😍

@caninbar 2 ай бұрын

Nice couple...It must be difficult not knowing the language, but being together helps a lot! I can see you've had no problems with food, although not always the "right" food, and too bad you're not vegan. I can't believe you only paid 5 euros to see the Pantheon. Relatives of mine bought their tickets online and paid around 50 euros each! I'm also surprised to see the fountain uncovered; they're renovating all of them for next year. The food IS great here, but you also have to know where to eat. By the way, the Vatican is full of "gay" and "other" men so don't worry about being set on fire. LOL! IF you come back to Rome, do let me know!

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately not physically…. But mentally we are there haha. 🤣 we miss it very much!

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

We are no strangers to not knowing the language and love the challenge that brings us because we love to learn new things!! We really tried to spend quite a bit of time learning too but You’re right…. Being together always helps 💕 You’re absolutely right!!! When it comes to food, it’s about where you eat and I think we did a bad job of explaining our curiosity about the food. We loved all of the food we had in Italy. The ingredients were by far the most fresh tasting ingredients…. Especially in Florence (where we go to next) where they really pride themselves on fewer seasonings on fresher ingredients. Our American palettes were just salt deprived haha 🤣 it wasn’t bad ever!!! It was just different than what we expected. And oh my goodness… we have always had the best of luck in our travels around the world. We are so thankful that we have the luck with the sights that we have had. One of our best travel advice is to always buy the tickets for the event directly at the location or on their specific website. Sites often tend to be third party and websites can be misleading about where you are. We faced this even bigger in Costa Rica! It saves a lot of money to go direct to the source.

@branc2658 2 ай бұрын

Train system in Italy Is so easy. But you have to plan your trip a bit better.

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha You’re definitely correct! We figured it out by the end of our time in Rome. And you’re right, it is soooo easy. We are no strangers to transit systems since we’re from NYC…. Which is a terrible metro system! Sometimes traveling brings weird challenges…. This just happened to be ours on this trip. Thankfully we don’t really sweat the small stuff. Every adventure is its own adventure.

@janoska2011 2 ай бұрын

Couple cute ❤️ is Good travel Italy Rome I'm glad 😊

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness! It was amazing! One of our favorite places we’ve ever been! 🖤

@paolomacedone453 2 ай бұрын

Italian always ends with a vowel. Not in spanish.

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

🤔 huh!! 🧐 you’re absolutely right! We didn’t really put that together until now haha 🤣

@paolomacedone453 2 ай бұрын

@@LavenderLingo and you must pronounce it (and every letter): don't skip letters

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha that we know. We can’t stand the “calimah” of the world lol 😂 we live in nyc but we’re not from here hahahaha

@LavenderLingo 2 ай бұрын

Actually in Italy we made friends with this couple (which we talk about in our cinque terre video coming up) where we talked about how cringey it is that New York Italians do this lol “mozzerell” 🤢