Off to Roma!

Wednesday 18th June 2014

Blog post by the mother

Onto Vaporetto number 1 this morning and off to the train station.  I have decided that I really enjoy travelling everywhere by boat - it seems a lot more relaxing than going by car or bus.  I do however also love trains and I particularly love the view from the front steps of the Venezia S. Lucia train station.  It does make one sad to be leaving.

There was the usual amount of waiting around.  The children are becoming very accomplished at working out our flight/train numbers and which gate/platform we should be heading for.  Miss 9 in particular takes great umbrage if trains/planes/boats are not running to time.  We have joked that if she was in charge everything would run like clockwork - watch this space...

Mild excitement (well from the parents at least) when we realized that our train was leaving from the same platform as the Orient Express.  Didn't manage to sneak aboard this time but it's still on my bucket list.


The FrecciArgento was perfectly fine and got us to Rome in fine form.  Lovely older Italian couple on their way to Naples kept offering the kids apricots and we all did our best to chat using sign language and my ten words of Italian.
Arrived into Rome to thunderstorms - hooray for the pre-booked taxi!  We were picked up from the railway station and then whisked off across the Tiber to Trastevere where we will be spending the next four nights.  Danielle and her daughter Silvia met us at the apartment and, once we established that French was our common language, gave us a tour of the apartment and a quick run down on supermarkets, restaurants and the all important gelateria in the local area.  Et voila, l'appartement!

Kitchen

Bedroom 1 - girls happy not to have to share a bed!

Master bedroom

Living/dining room - boys sleeping on fold out couch

Study alcove off dining room

View out the window to the right towards S.Maria de Trastevere

View out window to left looking down via San Francesco a Ripa

Neighbours across the road.

Once again the apartment has proven to be even better than the photos that we saw when booking and it is in a great location.  After waiting until after 7pm for them to open we went to Ivo across the road for pizza - highly recommended!  Loving Rome so far.