Viva La Roma (Sorry everyone, this got added a day late due to no internet access the first day we got in) Today we had a 7:00am start. We had breakfast and started our 10 minute walk to the station. This was quite a scene. We now had my large backpack full of my clothes, Fiona's suitcase with her clothes which I also managed to squeeze the ...

Michaelangelo - Why is it taking so long? Up at 7am for an early start today. Fiona has got my bug well and truely now and is suffering. I'm giving her heaps of sympathy. Our continental breakfast is a pastrie and a cup of coffee at a small cafe around the corner - it didn't even tickle the sides on the way down. We caught the train to ...

All roads lead to Rome! I need to start by going over what happened last night. We were going out for dinner after I finished posting the blog. We had decided to go and see the Trevi Fountain lit up at night as well. This meant getting the underground into the middle of Rome and about a 10 minute walk to the Trevi Fou...

The Fifth Quarter We have actually done most of what we wanted to do in Rome so today was just a day to finish off a few things. We had our light breakfast at about 8:30am and headed to the Vatican to climb the Dome and take a few more pictures. This was thrown into disarray because the trains stopped running for some reason. We decided ...

Chineese - Italian Style. Today started very early indeed. At about 5am Fiona's phone rang. It was some guy who lived in Brooklyn (near Footscray) calling to say he'd found a phone and was ringing to see who it belonged too. I gave him our home number and said to call at a reasonable time - and then relised it was 1pm Melbourne time. The pho...