Our time in Italy

Rome was HOT! Well, a maxiumu of 32dC is very hot for two would-be tourists coming from the pathetic summer that England is currently having. Having said that, it does not begin to compare to the 50dC days that Jon & Clare are having in Egypt!

We were staying in a "B&B with a view of the Vatican". In retrospect it sounds a lot better rhat it was. It was a small room in a 3 bedroom apartment, with no air conditioning, a view of the vatical wall, lumpy pillows, a shared bathroom and no breakfast. still, can't complain too much, it was clean, cheap and convenient. :)

Following a 3 day recommended sight seeing course that Gideon found on Trip Adviser, we drank a lot of water, walked a lot of kilometres, ate lots of food, spent lots of euros and visited lots of old buildings. If we keep up this amount of walking for the rest of this trip, I will hopefully lose at least some of this spare fat care of the Heathrow injection!

There was something quite wonderful about Rome. I was amazed that at every turn there was either amazing architecture or a restaurant. Gideon found interesting the dichotomy between the grandure of the buildings and the chaos/slopiness of the city maintenance. We argued whether rome and icons such as the ruins of the Colluseum were more beautiful because we could imaging just how rich and magnificent Rome once was, or whether it owuld have been eveng more impressive in its original state. I tend to believe the former as there is something more of a sense of wonder and magin in the loss of such greatness rather than in something that is there in front of you that can be taken for granted... if that makes sense. Either way, we both really enjoyed Rome, but were probably a little relieved to leave the heat the craziness!

Will update this post with photos at a later time when we are not paying for internet by the MB.

g xoxo