Hey guys it's morgan yates back in August
I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Italy in France with the group travel company Contiki
You may remember them for my Israel and Jordan trip vlogs
But if you're new Contiki is a group travel company for people ages 18 to 35
They plan your itinerary
book your hotels and even set you up with a full time tour guide to lead you around each day unlike my last trip with
Them where I traveled with a friend
However, I was joining for this adventure completely by myself not knowing anyone else would be there
This is definitely a bit outside my comfort zone. So let's go ahead and see what happened. It's travel day. I'm so excited
My suitcase, oh
Great
There's nothing breakable in there. Just kidding. There's not I need to head to the airport actually should have left already
So we're gonna go there now. I hope I got everything
I hope I know when we get there actually stuff for three hours last night. This flight is at 3 p.m
I land at noon tomorrow just gonna feel like 3 a.m. For me
So we're gonna hope that I can sleep on this plane in about that moveth here
Alright guys, I'm going to bed not much fun for today just had a group dinner and this group is so nice
I love everyone like I think it's gonna be a really great week currently about 10 p.m
And it's this whole day has just been that dinner for me because I've been sleeping
Waiting for all day to maybe huge sightseeing day ahead. So I'm just gonna let cliff speak for itself also million degrees out
So I thought a little maxi skirt would be good or midi skirt
It it's day two in Rome. You're kicking off the day right and early with a tour of the Colosseum from there
We're gonna go to the trevi fountain. This is our awesome camera crew right here together a video on the trip
Hey, we're getting kind of a grand tour of Rome later on. I think we're going to the Trevi Fountain. Yeah
Okay, so I'm just at the Colosseum and these two girls came up to me
What are your names again we go
Mosquito bite number one of the trip. This is everybody in our group
Taking a little break
Gelato
Spot
We're now at
Night came your last time and threw a coin and said I didn't know the rules
Apparently I'll throw in your right hand over your left hand
I say I threw a kind of straight back, but I guess it works
These are at one point users come back to Rome title
If you're one last time Anderson, these are two it means you're gonna come back and find love and there's a third one
I've already for you. But anyways, I'll have one coin so got some coming back to Rome and not getting much
busy place
Becoming my third gelato of the day
Dinnertime we're now in a little Plaza have four nice Mountain action going on time to go get some more
carbonara guys, Lucy McGuire movie soundtrack music
Platter of spritzer. I've never seen anything more beautiful
Morning guys, it is our final day in Rome were actually about to head to the train station
I've not explained quite yet why I'm actually here and what we're all here for is to test out a new trip with contiki
I think it's their Mediterranean quest train trip or something
basically in the past they've done everything by
Bus or coach and this is the first time they're doing this trip by train. So save some time see some more places
Next up we're heading to another city in Italy. So let's go. This is the reality of traveling
Like flying off and
This is progress since I walked away I made my trip friends
Our first trade comfy seat, oh you my air drop on by Spanish
Zombie had two trains just learned. It's a four-hour train that is time for a quality. Napping it for a whole sleep cycle nuts
dominoes
We're just getting a tutorial
They come bearing gifts I've got some Italian snacks Italian Pringles they're like white cheddar
She does looks like Harry Potter, but not at all
Nice and trendy this is the next hotel room for me and me which one will I sleep in?
Probably some nights room quite big got a desk set up
Quick update check in here in our next city me and little another girl on the trip
We're gonna go get some lunch a little late lunch because we're having a much later dinner tonight like 10:00 10:30 p.m
Because if you have a sunset cruise, it's so excited
I gotta do it quick get ready
And then we're gonna have such a fun nice boat outfit for the night
This one Swanton under but I thought I wearing a little skirt would be comfy. We love it. Here. We love nice
It's so happy. This is the experience it really is
It's also a very obscure meal our it's for I'm gonna off Jake is being very picky
What's good enough for you around here passes several options it was not much time
Most of Alaska United. Okay surveyors 104 Cenac time and you guys smell the gelato before I got some mint gelato
It's how committed we are to having snacks on this boat because our boat for the unique oh, yes
Flap it off. It was thought of that but now that's what I want
Just a casual 11 p.m. Italian dinner
So someone named me as an idiot and didn't bring a new battery for my camera
So we're doing my phone up all day and the prettiest place we're going cuz I'm stupid
I'm about to go to a cooking class. So I posted asking which dress I should wear. They're literally exactly the same
I want to wear the black one
But I feel like people are gonna vote for me to wear the red one because I never wear color and I made too much
of a big deal about that so
Time will tell close-up shot and the winning dress. Oh you ready saw?
Which is great news
I put on the red one and it's so wrinkly like it needed to go in the bathroom when I was showering or something because
It was just fresh out of my suitcase. So wrinkly and the black doesn't show it as much so out for the night
Thanks for voting helping me choose my outfit of the night. We are now in route. Okay we go through and route through art. I
Know it's really truly. Are you sitting there?
yes, poor guy Danny the coolest tour guide
Flashbacks can turn on the booze
Believe in him no way no chance. She feels confident with us
I'm just learning about these people right now
In reality our pesto making class
Made it
Everyone's up
Here's my conclusion so sudden look the prettiest but she was made with love
Think that we made this
Morning today we're
Okay, my first words today soon as my voice is dropped an octave
You're about to depart from here still unsure about the pronunciation of where we are. It's raining
Still don't know how to pronounce where we are
And every person on this trip has an accent of some sort
So it doesn't even help me understand how to say it as like an American
It's been awesome in this city. Pesto class last night was so fun
maybe the most fun we've had so far other than I
need to insert because this was all taken on my iPhone and one of the little talents we were walking around cuz we had some
free time after lunch
And most people opted to go swim and we were going to do that
but on the way
We saw this like big rock cliff thing
Where all these people are jumping up and there was this old man at the top
We like see the old man through like all like we'll just wait for him to jump off
it'll be cute and he continues to like stand up to go do it and then let go sit back down and we got
So invested, we watched this for like and by the end of this it was a 40-minute experience
So just imagine how invested one can get in 40 minutes when you're like I've already waited here for so long
I will not leave until this man jumps. We're like 30 minutes in and the whole time
I've been like should we shave our hands at like
Also where we're watching this there's like this huge like railing
Bridge type thing so so many other people are watching him as well. Who've been there the whole time
I just said it. I was like right let's just cheer her let's commit for him
So we did and then as the time went on we got like we led that you know
We really did really got the entire crowd and like everyone in the water into like cheering. He had an audience
And then he'd like get up to do it and then it walk away
He like disappeared completely real like he's done like he's getting down and then he came back up
So we could only assume that he was like stuck there and couldn't climb back down because the rocks are like actually pretty crazy and
so
then some more people from our group walked up cuz it was like trying to go to the Train and then one of them just
Started yelling a countdown. She was like 3 2
And he jumped
So it's just like such a cute little experience
I left there just like on top of the moon like you would think that's the most fun. I had all trip
I was so excited finishing packing. I'm gonna head to the train station because next we're going to it knees next
Or the train come for the trainee for that. Yeah, two trains. They're gonna do a little
Break and content. Oh
Say it again everyone's just saying my name over and over feeling my ego
Nice looks nice get it
Final day in these final full day on this trip we head home tomorrow
So right now we're about to go on a bike ride to a winery tour and get out right now
Nutrient
Our bike ride we're all needs like electrical bikes what we should go parasailing except for they're like about to fly into this building
So perhaps not
In your door you should get some gardening
You see is look at this
You see that just damn the under layer you long and I'm sweating my whole life. We've been together
Yes
Finally
Not only come he now made me instafamous but you've made some lifelong friendships
I'm about to head to the airport if you like what you saw in this logging, it's just I think going on this trip
I'm gonna have it linked below
I
just want to give some closing thoughts as I always do and I feel like this is like the repetitive speech I gave on every
group travel trip that I leave but
People are just great like this has just been such a refreshing week for me to go to meet somebody awesome other people
I've just had a wonderful time here and just being able to live it up here and shoot a cool video
They were falling through I want that camera crew the whole time. So I'll have the video linked as well
So you guys can see what they made of that. What a time
I'm always thankful to go on opportunities like this think inclusion. And so what do you think?
I love you guys for continuing to watch my videos and support me and
ahead
Thank you again a continued for sending me on this amazing adventure if you're considering traveling alone
I
Highly encourage you to do it at the beginning of this video is meeting a bunch of strangers and only a few days later
They become my friends who I still keep in touch with months later
I mean traveling by yourself with some of the best things you could do again
I'm gonna have this trip linked below. It is brand new
so if you're looking to save some time traveling by train ever come and eat check this out and
Let's get into some bloopers. Shall we?