Ciao

O.K. We know we've been a bit slack of late and there's lots of gaps to be filled in. (Like a little thing called a wedding.) We have, however, made the executive decision to leave the filling of said gaps until we get back from our honeymoon.

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WEDNESDAY 29TH AUGUST 2007,
ROME, ITALY

We finally made it to Rome and the hotel at 4.30 pm (Rome time - 12.30 am Australian time) on Tuesday 28th Aug. This meant that from the time the plane left Brisbane at 8pm on the 27/8 to the time we reached the hotel we had been travelling for 28 & 1/2 hrs. (Insert exhaustion here.)

The hotel is only a couple of minutes walk from the train station. We were slightly worried as we walked down the street the hotel is on. It looks a bit grungy (but is actually quite normal for Rome). The hotel is very nice though. The room is small but the furniture is quite good quality and the amenities are well appointed.

Despite being completely shattered we didn't go straight to sleep. We unpacked so we don't have to live out of a suitcase for this first week. Scott also experimented with local TV and we were slightly horrified when the first show that came on was a dubbed episode of McLeod's Daughter's.

In attempt to re-establish that Italian feeling so cruelly crushed by a terrible Aussie TV show we then went to find a pizzaria for dinner. There are about 15 of them within two minutes walk but in the end we settled on a little place called Dominoes. Just kidding.

Actually, we don't know what it was called but it was very Italian and the pizza was fabulous. Kelly was in heaven with pizza topped only in sauce and three kinds of capsicum. Scott's tomato and herb pizza was also great, although a little firey.

On the way back to the hotel we stopped at a little Aldi type supermarket to get some supplies in case jetlag visited us with an attack of the munchies in the middle of the night.

Now, earlier at the hotel we had examined the minibar price list and decided that we could afford to splurge 1 Euro on a bottle of water (approx. $1.70 Aust didn't seem too bad). You can imagine our surprise when we saw bottled water selling at the supermarket for 16 Euro cents each. We bought six.

Back at the hotel we finally gave into our exhaustion and fell asleep at about 8pm. (we had made a point of trying to operate according to Rome time since boarding the plane in Brisbane in an attempt to limit the effects of jetlag. It seems to have worked as we slept through to 6am and feel pretty good.)

That about brings us up to date. Stay tuned and we'll try to keep you posted.

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