Bonus blog! The smurfs are big here too with the new movie. In Israel I had a smurf ice cream (came with a mini plastic figurine), in Spain I had a happy meal (with free smurf toy - currently on matt's bag) and here we see the movie posters - brilliantly... i puffi

Rome... We got in last night and ate fantastic chinese food just around the corner. I love Italian food but I also love Chinese food and it's been a while since I tucked in! This morning we set off with big plans, first the colosseum, then the roman forum etc but we arrived at the colosseum to find it shut - a strike. So we went back to the train station - now shut for the strike, our daily tickets useless! So we walked back to the hotel, then decided to try th...