La Città Eterna

My flight from Dubai to Rome was much better. Possibly because I was more rested, but there was still bugger all leg room. Ok, I'm going to stop ranting about that now.

To my surprise and horror, the navigation video screen displayed Milan as the final destination. Nowhere on my ticket did it mention Milan at all! Anywho, milled about at Milan airport for an hour before getting back on the plane for an hour long flight to Rome.

Found my accomodation without too much hassle, in a quaint little street nestled right next to the railway station (useful for trip to Naples). After freshening up, I decided to go for a random wander, and sort out a few things that cocked up during the flight over (lack of contacts, body wash leaking all over the suitcase, no adaptor for lappy).

No sooner had I set foot back in the square in front of the railway station, I was accosted by two horrible looking gypsy women. One trying to grab and kiss my arm and the other trying to use some crude cardboard apparatus to attempt some sleight of hand on my man bag. I had to forcibly remove them from me and bark obscenities to them in English before they would bugger off. I really didn't want to do that, and they really were amateurs, since they were at it for about a good half a minute without filching anything from my bag!

I faffed around in the Railway station mall, found what I needed (except for the lappy adapter), and walked down a random street, it eventually took me down to Trajan's Forum, YAY!, got a few pics on the SLR but the light was dimming and I didn't take the tripod along. Ducked into a Trattoria and had some lovely pasta, finished up with gelato :)

Waiting for Masty and Bruce now, he txted me about an hour ago, no further word. Might get something to eat.

Ciao for now :P