Saturday 9 July 2011

HEADING FOR ROME/HOME

Hi everybody. We are now back at our favourite convent/hotel in Rome. After saying goodbye to our housemates Ken and Pam, a lovely couple whose company we thoroughly enjoyed, and the rest of the group with whom we shared a wonderful week, we had an uneventful drive from Positano to Naples where we got back on the Eurostar for our trip back to Rome. This time I had the GPS operating. The train didn’t quite get to 300 kms an hour. It topped out at 297.

We spent this afternoon doing a bit of Romeing. Within an easy walk from here is the Foro di Nerva, the Foro di Augusto, the Foro di Cesare and the Foro Traino. We checked them out along with the Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II, the Piazza Campidoglio, the Teatro Marcello, the Ponte Fabrico, the Ponte Palatino, the Circo Massino and, of course, a number of churches we encountered along the way. Tomorrow we will head off in a different direction before we get collected for our trip to the airport at 1:00pm.



On the subject of churches, we have the Mass times for a nearby church so may get there in the morning. We thought we would appropriately impress the nuns who run the hotel by asking about mass times. We then asked for a late checkout and, surprise, surprise, they agreed to give it to us.
As you may have gathered, we have had a fabulous month in Italy but are now looking forward to being home on Tuesday. I wonder if I will get to the office on Tuesday afternoon.

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