So I’m in Roma now. I have a ticket to Frankfurt, but since it seems everyone but the Saffas are gone (and I don’t want to feel like a third wheel) I have taken up Luca’s gracious offer to come to Rome.

The weather over the weekend was a wreck. It seems to have finally warmed up now, which is a nice gesture from the weatherpeople.
So a review…Matt arrived from Frankfurt on Saturday. Because of the weather he had to divert from Pisa to Genoa and he had to ride a bus from Genoa to Pisa. No skin of my back 🙂 I just walked around Pisa while waiting. In the meantime there were also train problems so when he got dropped off in Pisa it was getting late and I was worried about more train cancellations-  so instead of showing Matt the tower we just went straight home (and then to the pub) to watch some football…which was also cancelled because of the weather. Didn’t really stop us tho. We still had a bit of fun before we both left Monday morning to catch a train (and an emergency taxi ride from a colleague – thanks Massimo!). Him to the airport for London and me to Pisa central station to move on to Rome.
I hope my tour of Marina di Carrara wasn’t too boring 🙂 At least there was snow on the beach. I guess you don’t see that everyday!

The train ride to Rome was pretty smooth (other than me sending a text to the wrong Luca to tell the roman luca when I would be arriving – oops).

Last night Luca played football with some friends while I kept time. It was about 1°C and pouring last night so the quality of play was questionable ;)…as was the timekeeping…This was followed by a great dinner.

Today Luca took me to the Vatican and it was great. It rained most of the day, but the museum and the Vatican were beautiful, as is the rest of Rome so far. On the way to the Vatican (by bus) we saw all the big sites (Colisseum etc) and we’ll get back there tomorrow to see them up close.

Cheers Luca for being such a great host!!!