After may hrs of sleep we were woken by the delivery of continental breakfast to our room at 8am. 'Rome in a Day', what to do first? Since we are so close to the Central train station we head there to book tickets to Sienna tomorrow. We emerged 2 hrs later with train rather than bus tickets to Florence, as planned, but that's all good. The final leg to Sienna is by bus. Had used the self serve and found it pretty easy to follow in Italian but the final message was something like "there was a payment error, you have not been charged" so Eric then stood very patiently in a huge queue of foreigners at the Information Counter. Per Favor!
It's now 11 am so our 'Rome in a Day' has been cut to just over half. I'm prepared to cut half the ruins out but Eric insists he sees them all and I should too. My knee is complaining after the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill so we stop for lunch and bierre by Vittorio Emanuelle monument. Shortcuts are out of the question so on to the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain (where the crowds are 10 deep) and finally the Spanish Steps. Caught the Metro home with just a short detour to a sidewalk cafe for refreshing bierre and then strolled through the park to our hotel. Problem is we can't find a public toilet anywhere, so have to keep going into bars for a bierre and using theirs!
Went around the corner to a restaurant for dinner, chose not to have pasta this time. Specialty of the house was veal and mushroom which was lovely served on the sidewalk as we watched the sun set on Santa Maria Magglore.
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