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View from Rome Apartment bedroom window We rode the open top round and round bus around Rome which gives you a great view looking down on the people. Got off at the Coliseum and Grant did the tour while I found some more cobble lanes to walk (and and a Gelato). Got off at the Pantheon, piazza Novaona , church of Santa Maria, Spanish Steps - check out the video. The Spanish steps are surrounded by up market shops. I saw the most expensive shoes I’ve ever seen - more expensive than Jimmy Choos €900 shoes (NZ$1,700) by some designer I’d never heard of. The Australian lady standing next to me was so besotted she took a photo of them. They were very fine high heeled like leather lace covered in little crystals, (Sorry boys) Everything is just so old, old, OLD! There is a fountain on every corner, not any sort of fountain but beautifully detailed large marble. A church on every street not any sort of church but exquisitely decorated in fresco and mosaics and statues. We are in historical and arts overload. It started to rain so when got off at our local stop our apartment being near the Vatican and sat in a
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Lunch by Spanish steps corner bar with a couple of wines. The only things cheaper than home; Buses, Trains and Wine. Wine is the same price as coffee.
So yesterday time to leave Roma and our little cute apartment with beautiful floors and the smelly toilet(did I mention our 80 year old lift like those old cage ones well, it’s a Ferrari lift!)- raining so decided to Taxi to the Stationze Termini. Took 4 hrs get to Pisa where we had to get the bags down off one platform and up on to another with half an hour between trains. Denise, next time well get the fast train, and guess what was on the station, a McDonalds! Only took 30 mins to Lucca. Not a great welcome as it was raining pretty steady.
So now we are in our Lucca apartment for the next week. Spent an hour trying to work out how to use the washing machine and got two loads of washing done Our apartment - Well I thought I had walked into a medieval gothic film set. It is part of a 300 year old building ( our part the kitchen of course) behind the wall city and the owner
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Coliseum has it displayed with antiques and other old stuff. There are huge great wooden beams and down in the dungeon - the laundry there are scratchings on the wall from 1772 and 1836. The massive old front door requires a very large old iron key. No on second thoughts its like being in the museum only everybody else has gone home and we’re the only ones left. It’s a bit spooky and last night while hanging up the washing I heard rattling chains and slow footsteps.
Today we are staying around here to get our bearings and watch the weather.
See ya around
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Denise Fowler
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From Denise
Hi Guys, nice to read your travels. Wendy buy plenty of shoes the Euro is up to .57 tonight. I hope the ghost is a friendly one in the Apartment in Lucca and you are having a nice time there. Fast train ex Rome to Siena wasnt really an option on your day (not many on the regional routes)as it was really early and overal it is only 45mins difference. But you are on the fast train from Florence to Venice....hope the weather is picking up for you. Heathrow is closed today (ash problem)but it is meant to open in the morning...stay safe and hope your legs are recovering from the walk...mind are sore, I walked the Great Wall of China on Saturday!!! Denise xxx