Hi everybody. We are now comfortably settled in at Instituto il Rosario in central Rome, a ten minute walk from the Colosseum. The view from our window is a bit limited but the location is perfect.
We arrived here at midday after eventually negotiating our way through the outskirts of Rome to the motorhome base. We elected to follow the directions given by the GPS rather than those given by the motorhome people which was a mistake. The GPS sent us by a route which involved a low bridge we couldn’t fit under. As is not unusual, we saw some parts of the city we weren’t expecting to see but all’s well that ends well.
I had some negotiating to do about the charge for the extra mileage on the motorhome because the speedometer over read by about 10% but we came to a mutually satisfactory compromise. If anybody wants to rent a motorhome in Italy, we highly recommend them. Their vehicle was excellent. We did 2,500 kilometres in the 17 days we had it.
As you would expect, we spent this afternoon at the Colosseum and the adjacent Palatino. We joined an English speaking conducted tour which enabled us to avoid the extremely long queue to get in. What can one say? Rome is all about the history of the Romans which started more than 2000 years ago and the prolific Roman ruins reflect that.
Tomorrow we are off to the Vatican. We have our tickets and hope the experience won’t be too challenging. We can apparently expect to be part of a very large crowd.
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