so basically i met up with a few of my friends yesterday, and we all decided that we wanted to go somewhere this summer. it was a choice between Rome and Athens, and although i didn't really have a preference, after a little bit of research we decided that Rome was probably going to be cheaper, and that we could definitely just do Athens next year. one of my friends, Dan, has some friends in Rome that he met on his travels around China a few years ago, so we contacted them, and unfortunately one of them wont be in Rome on the dates that we're there for..
but.. he is still somewhere in Italy - Reggio Calabria - and luckily he said that we can stay with him for a few days, which will cut the costs down a bit, and give us the chance to see another side of Italy.
so after that we just talked about the places we wanted to visit while we were there - the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, Pompeii.. and then tried to work out a way we could visit everything. at the moment, i think i'm probably the key planner, i've yet to meet up with everyone else after our discussion to start booking it all.
As we're students, everything has to be reasonably cheap - personally i'm on a budget of the left over £500 of my student loan - absolute maximum, and seeing as we're looking to travel to three different places in the space of a week, and a day trip, it's probably not going to be as cheap as it could be, but we're looking to really make the most out of the time we have there, and see as much as possible.
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