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Huge amounts of sightseeing

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:15:40 -0500

We spent four days just seeing the very top of the huge riches of Rome. The Vatican Museums, the Forum, Colosseum and Palatine Hill. An open topped bus tour. The Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain. Various slices of pizza, several ice-creams, very (very) sore feet. 137 photographs. We're only posting the one picture, of us beside the Arch of Constatntine and the Colosseum, to stand for it all. (Continued...)

Getting to Rome from Ostia

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:14:26 -0500

From the Porto Touristico, it's about one hour into central Rome. Although it sounds complicated, it's actually very simple. (Continued...)

Porto Turistioo di Roma

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:26:02 -0500

So we made some frantic phone calls. The wonderful Manuela at the Porto Turistico found us a berth for six months - actually at slightly less than Nautilus Marina. We motored back out of the river, round the corner and into this spiffing harbour. It has been built inside two breakwaters, and a lot of care has been taken to try and minimise swell. This matters a lot, as it has a poor reputation for swell, and we shall see how well the curved walls and large spending beach actually work. (Right now, it's very calm!) (Continued...)