Day 11 - Rome, Italy

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Activities

Adios Valencia - Buongiorno Roma
Transfer to Roma
Roman sights teaser stroll

Highlight(s)

• Wow factor on first sightings of Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain
  
• Michele's Gelati count - 14
  
• Joscelina's Italian Coffee count - 2
  

Odd Spot(s)

* Felipe Massa the taxi driver: the guy at the hotel said it would take 25-30 mins to get to Valencia airport. We hailed a cabbie from across the road who came screaming up onto the sidewalk (at that stage we should have known what we were up for). The driver took off like the start of a race and pulled some pretty amazing passing manouvers as he sped us to the airport in under 15 mins. When we paid him we said, "Gracias Philipe Massa!" - he thought it was the biggest compliment ever.
* Upon being asked by passengers to take a photo of them, the flight attendant first turned the camera around and took a photo of himself with a big cheesy grin and then took 3 shots of the group ensuring that the photo was right.
* When we landed in Roma there was a spontaneous round of applause indicating the gratitude for the safe landing of the aircraft. We got the sense that maybe not all landings are as smooth as the one we experienced.

Weather

Pleasant, sunny 30 degrees.

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Photos

Trevi Fountain
Breathtaking, inspiring and full of tourists just like us.

Lladro
Lladro Museum, Valencia

Valencia Taxi
Anyone would have thought Felipe Massa had stayed in Valencia after the GP and was actually driving us to the airport, breaking every land speed record along the way.

Fiat 500
Sighting number one...

Fruit & Veg Stall
Stalls are easily found in the side streets.

Roman Ruins
Amazing

Colosseum Snipet
Everywhere you look, glimpses of roman sights are there to amaze us again.

Colosseum Backdrop
The happy travellers.

Comments

[Steve.Z.]

Roma
Looks like a great place. Very funny taxi story.......I love taxi's.

[Melissa W]

Great Pic.
That photo of the Roman Sunset is amazing, that should go up in FK HQ.