We touched down in Rome Ciampino airport and while we were waiting for the Terravision bus, we were greeted by a black cat, the first of the so called Cats of Rome we were to meet. It was almost 11pm when we boarded the very comfortable coach style bus to Rome. We travelled along the Appian Way, an ancient Roman road, still in use today and couldn't see anything as it was very dark. We got off at Rome Termini train station and then had to find our way to the hote...

We had decided today that we were not going to walk everywhere as our feet were still hurting from the previous day. We decided to take the water bus (Al Vaporato) everywhere today, we bought a twenty four hour ticket for about seven Euros and climbed aboard at Ferrovia station. The Al Vaporato just seemed to crash into the stations and skid along the canals, it was a hot day and I was sitting outside watching all the magnificent scenery go by, fantastic old chu...

We came down with a large bump onto the tarmac at Treviso airport near Venice, we got off and I had never seen such a small airport in all my life. It was even smaller than Coolangatta Airport on the Gold Coast in Australia. There was one conveyer belt and you went through and they barely even looked at your passport, they stamped mine, but not Mum's. We got out into the main area which was no bigger than my old bosses office and we did not have any Euros, we ass...