EuroTrip 2013 - Roma to Barcelona • O'Neil Castro

In the end of April 2013 we landed in Roma and begun a 2500km roadtrip to Barcelona.

We rented a small Fiat just before leaving Roma and dropped it in Barcelona the minute we got there, we used Avis, the didn’t have any extra fees to drop the car in another country which is amazing.

Full album here: Complete set.

The map of the trip :

First Roma, amazing city, visiting the classic sites, Cololsseo first which was about 3 minutes walk from our room at Colosseo Panorama, I highly recommend staying there when in Roma. Another place to visit while in Roma is Pizzeria La Montecarlo

Also, make sure to get Gelato at Gelataria dei Gracchie

Museo Sacrario delle Bandiere

Trevi Fountain

Vatican on sunday…

The amazing food in Italia, the prosciutto, the di bufala at Gregory, well worth a stop!

Just a random shot of prosciutto in the streets of Roma

Fiat and bicycle

The river

From Roma we drove to San Marino, it’s a small place but very nice and worth the visit in my opinion, the view from the city is just amazing. The ride to get up there is a lot of fun, you can also use the aerial tramway. We slept in the first hotel we found, Grand Hotel San Marino

You can walk around the city and also visit the castle

Amazing sunset

Next day it was time for Venezia, another very interesting city

After an amazing diner at Impronta Cafe in Venezia we went to sleep in our cheap but clean hotel Tivoli Hotel

Next day went on to Modena home of everything Ferrari

The amazing F40 in the Ferrari museum

The LaFerrari was just released

Had the pleasure of driving a F458 for about 10 minutes, what a thrill, we then visited the local market to get some balsamic vinegar, can’t go to Modena and not buy balsamic vinegar. Next it was time to go back to the coast, Cinque Terre here we come

La Spezia on the way to Cinque Terre

In Cinque Terre we decided to stay at Cornoglia we rented a small house, I can’t recommend this place enough, Agave Cinque Terre, the view is amazing, the owners are extremely nice, it’s clean and very well priced.

The view when you step out of the house

Sadly weather wasn’t that great, one day we will go back and enjoy that place as it should for more then 2-3 days.

Took the train to visit the other villages nearby first was Riomaggiore, cars are useless after you get there

This is one of the most popular villages, Manarola

Sunset from the house

After 2 days in Cinque Terre we continued our road trip, time for the Côte d’Azur, France.

Beaulieu-Sur-Mer – We had our hotel 5 minutes from that amazing beach, Hotel Comte de Nice

Monaco days before the Grand Prix

Nice – Restaurant recommendation Le Vingt4

Beach time again at Juan-Les-Pins

St-Tropez

Got to St-Cyr-Sur-Mer just in time for a dip and sunset, after the sunset we went a little out of our way for diner but if you can, go eat there, it’s in a medieval village called Le Castelet, the name of the restaurant is La Farigoule

Next day Cassis and the Calanques were on the to do list

Walked from Cassis into the Calanques

Found a little place to take a swim

After that we took the car and drove to Marseille, we didn’t stay too long

Dropped by Aix-en-Provence the next day on the way to Montpellier

Aix-en-Provence public market

We then got to the last stop in France, Montpellier. Very beautiful city, clean and historic

Hotel in Montpellier : Royal Hotel

The next day it was time for our last stop, Barcelona, but not before stopping at the Dali Museum in Figueres

We then went on to Barcelona, the final stop. We got an amazing deal on our hotel, H10 Casanova, really perfect, if you can afford it or get a good deal do it! We found our deal on booking.com at the time.

View from the roof of the hotel