Happy birthday Mum July 10 th Discovering Ancient Roma Whilst Stan and Karen forged off in search of modern art, Alex, Cassie and I plunged ourselves into ancient history. We took a guided tour of the Colisseum, Roman Forum and Palantine Hill. Our guide, Mariella, is an archeologist so this is her favourite place. Since the economic crisis jobs in this field are hard to come by. It's an impressive site pl, so big and the fact that it was built without machine...

July 9 th When in Rome do as the Romans do It took us 4 hours on the high speed train, the Frecciagento, to travel back to Rome. It travels up to 210 km/ hr. Very quiet and comfy. The girls read and caught up on their diaries, I caught up on the blog, Stan read and slept. Stan bought 2 books back from home for Alex and she has finished one already. We arrived at the Roma Termini, caught the metro to the Spanish steps and went to our apartment at Via del Babui...