Thank goodness for our rest day on the beach. Little did we know that we would walk over 13 miles today alone! Our last full day in Rome was always going to be packed full and we set our sights on Ancient Rome; Palatine Hill, the Roman forum and the Colosseum. Unlike the Vatican Museums, …
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Day Nine: Rome (but not really)
What Nic and I haven’t told you in this blog, is that our bodies are starting to feel the effect of all this touring. Between us we have one functioning body and are currently held together with painkillers, blister plasters and germoline (which seems to soothe just about everything)! So today we took a train, …
Day Eight: Rome
I promised to keep this post short and sweet so I’ll aim to do just that. Today in one word, exhausting. So much so, I write this from our apartment bed, Nic snoozing, air-con whacked up on high and all intentions to doze off soon too. Today was Vatican day. In all honesty, I’m not …
Day Seven: Siena to Rome
Suitcases packed (3 bottles of wine heavier!) and stomachs fed, we caught a taxi to Siena’s train station. To get to Rome, we would have two legs to complete our journey. Leg 1: Siena to Florence SMN – approx 1.5hrs. Leg 2: Florence SMN to Rome Termini – approx 1.5hrs. Having had problems on our …
Travelling Coltman’s 