Roma

So I went to Rome to catch up with Chris & Zoe a while ago – Us jetset types can’t meet in the cities we live but have to ‘Holiday’ to meet. Once again racial profiling worked in my favour at the airport, at the expense of an unfortunate Sri Lankan family as I strolled through customs. Arriving in the general vicinity of the hotel we were staying in I was lucky Chris & Zoe had got there earlier in the day and in the daylight otherwise I think I would have been sleeping under the stars that night. With all our gear unpacked we shot off to the Coliseum. It’s well impressive at night when it’s lit up by hundreds of well placed flood lights (actually it’s impressive in the daytime as well but I’m getting ahead of myself). Although you can only stare at lit stones for so long before you get hungry, luckily if there’s one thing Italians can do well its food. (OK they’re not too bad at cars as well – the new  Fiat Panda is awesome) Great food matched with great wine (Is there any other type) followed up by great friends catching up. After dinner we found an Irish pub -what are you gona do?- The cool thing about this place was the table football game that you played with water pistols, unfortunately for Chris my left shoulder won out over my right shoulder and he got a stain in the pants.

A crazy taxi ride home & Zoe went to bed leaving the lads to carry on ‘catching up’. The only problem being buying catch up juice, to do so we had to buy a magic ticket & then use the ticket to get some beers – fine, but neither of us know any Italian past hello, thank you & excuse me (scusilo) – Of cause we managed

The morning was a little dusty but the supplied Italian breakie & a few litres of good coffee helped a lot, then it was off to St Peters square to start an epic walking tour navigated by the brilliant Zoe Zoe, a lot more attractive & personable than any Tom Tom. We were thinking about popping in to see big Pope Beni (Chris had a letter from the Queen for him) but we realised he was in Oz forgiving the convicts, plus the queue was huge.

This is taking me too long to write so Part 2 will be coming soon.