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Had the most amazing meal tonight at the restaurant owned by family Crosti who own the hotel we are staying in Rome. Actually it's been great for cost location and ease of getting to most of the places we wanted to go . The meal tonight was sublime we had fish hors d'ouvres to share with white wine (st Theresa ) then main of veal stuffed with mozzarella and proscetto. Delicious. Jude finished with tiramisu and I with lemon cake and espresso. It was the staff brother and sister team Rita and Paola that recognised the guy on the train in our carriage from Florence . Thanks Christine for booking us in first class. Nec or Filippo Neviani is very hot right now on the Italian and Spanish charts. Looked him up on YouTube . So that's another celebrity who has crossed our paths. It is the people we are meeting who are making the trip special for us. Stood in line today to see the Vatican museums with a girl called Alice. I will write more in FB about her but she is doing her PhD in applied physics . She s not famous yet but she s gonna be. Got a photo with her too. She is working on the theory of invisibility. Yes they are close to creating a way of making things invisible through mending metal to change the way fragmented light is refracted off subjects . That's what her PhD is on. People make our day. Met A woman at Florence railway station from Assisi. She had very little understanding of English but she was friendly and happy to meet us. I gave her a wee badge from NZ and she was thrilled. Her photo will be on my next offering with Nec and of course the highlights of Rome. As well as the pastries, gelato and pizzas plus the wine and limoncello , the sights of Rome have been incredible. All that history and passion, the renaissance art explosions and the second renaissance when Italy became a united state in the nineteenth century, has culminated in this city being so full of treasures as to be overwhelming . I was blown away by the antiquities in the forum yesterday and in the Vatican museum today . Sadly it was a public holiday yesterday so all the tourists who couldn't go to the Vatican and St peters basilica yesterday went today . We had to buy an expensive tour guide to beat the four hour queue to get in. But having the guide was great. It seemed there were twice as many pilgrims as normal. They usually get 20,000 a day. Recommend the tour guide option for anyone wanting to visit the quintessential Sistine chapel as you get through very much quicker. We also found the hop off hop on bus yesterday a bonus though should have got the 24 hour pass not the 'one day'. The photos as ever will tell the story. We head off to Greece tomorrow and still have to pack. Taxi arrives at 0730. So will need to be ready . Looking forward to some time in the sun beside the pool at Santorini, Greece for five days.
More photos soon.
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