Rome. Hot and sweaty from Pisa we boarded an over crowed bus and played my favourite "knock out a local" game (10 points if you get a local, 12 for a child, -15 if you hit a fellow traveller. Incidently this game was modified for the pedal boats, but that is another story.) Once on board the train we found our carriage, with 4 other English women travelling together, far far more prepared than either Cat or I who had remembered to bring some water between us, these ladies had it all: crisps, sarnis, juices (complete with cups), fruit, biscuits. They offered us a crisp, but having not eaten since the night before we decided that would make it worse, and endured the rest of the journey with the smells of food making our tummies grumble.
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