Another quick update as my tourist activity decreases. Sunday today so all sorts of trouble finding the right bar that was open for our morning coffee. Rome just seems to have suddenly died down and there are hardly any people out and about. The tourists are leaving, it being the end of August and slowly the Italians are coming back in to open up and go back to work. However where there is a will there’s a way and we did find a place. Then we lounged around at home for a few hours. Chris is doing a translation for someone which is challenging and she has to keep going back to it. I sit in front of a fan and read.
Then we set off to go to the market for food supplies but on the way we went past Mr Ping, my hairdresser. I ran in to get an idea of what days he worked. He doesn’t work Tuesday or Wednesday and little else works for me so I decided to peel off from the market expedition and get my hair done right there and then. It felt good to have achieved that…hair quite short for me!! Then walking home from over the river and the thunder and rain started. All my beautiful boofed up hair was flattened in an instant!! Mr Ping is definitely a national treasure.
Homa again and Chris and I had a late lunch of spaghetti with yummy mozzarella and tomato. We just cleaned up from that and Sally and Gordon arrived. That was lovely. We went for a walk but they were dead on their feet after the flight so just wanted to go back to their hotel to bed. We’ll see them tomorrow but probably briefly. They are with Eddie, Edwina and their 3 kids aged 8,5 & 2 yrs so they’re busy to say the least. The Hop On, Hop Off Bus seems to be just the ticket for them to explore Rome.
That’s it for another day. The countdown has started…4 more sleeps!!! Not counting the Plane and Dubai sleeps of course!