Busy days with Tull in Roma along with a preoccupation on my part with finding a place to stay in Rome when I return from Venice. The latter has driven my slightly mad.
On Thursday Tull took up the challenge to conquer Rome alone and set out for the Colosseum and the Forum. I stayed home to try and sort out my packing for the onward voyage i.e. what was I going to leave behind with Chris and repacking with what I was going to take.
I also was faced with the reality that I had nowhere to return to in Rome given that the apartment Chris thought would be ready wasn’t going to be ready. It was this chore that sent me into a bit of a panic because everywhere I looked either didn’t have a clear 6 week period and/or was hugely expensive. I spent hours doing this and more hours doing all the train bookings for our forward journey online which was another of those frustrating tasks.
So Tull was home before I knew it. We went out for a late lunch to a lovely restaurant which was chockablock full but 2 women agreed to move up for us, only to find they were Australian so we had a nice lunch chatting to them. We then went for a bit of a stroll and came home for a bread and cheese and wine lunch.
Next morning was an alarm clock morning with a train trip to Orvieto on the agenda. Although I’ve been to Orvieto a million times before it never ceases to grab me…Signorelli remains my man!!! We wondered around there for ages, up to the Duomo, in and out little streets. We had booked lunch in a nice restaurant in a ‘grotto’ and enjoyed that. A bit more wander, wander then back on to the funicular to the train station and back to Roma. When we got back, Tull who is getting very adventurous set off down to Campo dei Fiori for some Pizza Bianca. I was still frantically trying to sort out the accommodation issue so she also went out for the supply of wine and bread for tea….excellent.
Today is Saturday so Chris has been taking us out and about. To a market for her food supplies and then around looking at the locations I am looking at for accommodation…Campo dei Fiori, Trastevere and Monti. We then had lunch in a great and very cheap restaurant, followed by a delicious gelato. Now its back to trying to solve the problem of the accommodation.
Tomorrow we are off to Naples, that will be an adventure for me because I haven’t been there for a zillion years.
Love for now