{"id":5388,"date":"2014-06-22T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:54:08","slug":"arriving-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/arriving-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Italy by Austin Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5396 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 18px\" alt=\"Vatican above\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Vatican-above1-224x300.png\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long day of flying (thank God they had free in-flight movies) and layovers we\u00a0finally arrived in Rome. After we got through customs and off the bus we didn&#8217;t have for more\u00a0than 45 minutes before we had to head to the Vatican. 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