Hi my darlings one and all. Here I go again, another flight, another country, another experience.
The flight over was as you’d expect but without undue stress. I had a vacant seat next to me on both flights. A bonus indeed. In fact on the short flight from Dubai to Rome I had 2 vacant seats next to me and was able to lie down…what luxury. Not too much sleep but enough to get by.
Chris picked me up from the airport and we came to my home away from home. A shared bottle of wine later and I slept like a proverbial baby so now up and running as per normal.
Off for our coffee this morning and it really did feel all so lovely and familiar. On the way to coffee we went via a market to look at dresses that Chris had spied previously for me. And I found not 1, not 2, but 4 dresses for less than 25 Eu each. I was very chuffed indeed!!
Then I headed off in the sweaty heat to get a SIM for my mobile. Only to realise when I got there that I’d left my passport back home…bugger, so had to trudge back home to get the passport and then back to the shop…pouring sweat as per Sri Lanka!! I got my SIM but passwords etc didn’t allow activation. Back home and….you guessed it! a phone call to Hammy to get myself sorted. As Hammy said, philosophically, that he guessed Angus couldn’t dig ditches from that distance!!! Anyway, all set up now and a very grateful Mumma I am.
Pasta, mozzarella and fresh tomato for lunch. Yummy! But the phone saga continued when Tim wouldn’t activate. So I headed off back to the Tim shop…not a short distance away in this overwhelming heat. I got into the shop, decided to try one more time to see if it connected and of course it did. So trudge, trudge, trudge back. How I was wishing a little Tuk Tuk would come along and transport me back for $1. But I decided to divert and do a little nostalgic detour to Piazza Navona…swamped by tourists but majestic nonetheless, as it never fails to be.
Now we’re packing for our departure to Istanbul tomorrow. I have the dilemma re taking new dresses/ old dresses…such a hard life really. Then we’re going out for dinner to a restaurant run by a guy who has a lovely restaurant outside Lucca…H, A & R know the one. He has a pop up restaurant on the river in Rome in August and Sept. so that will be a treat.
I’ll send this off now. Next exciting episode will most likely be from Turkey.