We're off to Rome for two weeks, mostly for the food and the sights. We were also lucky to get tickets for Midnight Mass at St Peter's Basilica, it's one of the few things we have actually planned.
It's a bit of a process to apply for tickets for Midnight Mass. You need to download an application and then fax (!) it to the Vatican. We signed up for an online fax service and started faxing. There's probably only one fax machine at the Vatican and not surprisingly busy most of the time. Thank goodness for auto resend, it took about 50 attempts. Then about two weeks later, we received an email response that we had been accepted! (I also thought it was cool to receive an email from a .va email address). In the email were instructions on how to pick up our tickets before mass.
Packing was much more straightforward than our other trips - it's just the clothes we'd wear at home. The weather in Rome around Christmas is a little warmer than Toronto, highs of 15C and lows around 4C. Normally about 50% of the days are rainy but according to my iPhone the weather looks good for the next week or so.
Our flight was Saturday at 6pm, so we weren't rushed to leave right after work on Friday. There's no direct flights from Toronto to Rome in the winter so we flew through Amsterdam. In between changing planes we went through passport control and got our passports stamped.
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