Brett sleeps in and I breakfast alone. We head off to Termini station to change our ticket to venice, which has been booked for the wrong day. We take a numbered ticket to be served and wait about 40 minutes, but its a very helpful and friendly successful ticket change. By now its noon and super hot again, we walk to the Appian way bus company and book a tour for saturday, and secure 3pm tickets for the Borghese gallery. We need to get to the Barberini station to...

We were up early to catch the Metro to Musei Vatica to join our tour at 9.45am. It is a much better temperature at this time, but not by the time we enter the station Termini, and cleverly buy 2 day passes from a machine, and join the train with so many other people! Honestly, I dont know where they came from, one second theres us then theres hundreds descending the stairs th line A. We got off and its scorching already, I buy my first purchase, a 2 euro japanese...

Does it look hot? Its really hot as we walk from the Metro, I think the heat is worse as it bounces off all the stone buildings everywhere. We head to the Spanish steps for the obligatory photos then head into the nearest cafe to have a cold drink. While there we observe the pusher rose sellers thrusting roses into unsuspecting female hands then siding on up to the hubby for the money. With no luck at all when we were looking, the roses thrust directly back at th...

Evening and I convince Brett to use our still current metro tickets and go somewhere else for dinner, somewhere with some ambience? away from the constant traffic? maybe a little something to look at?! We hop on the train and head for Piazza del Poppolo and find a nice cafe, Rosati, with a lovely view of the Piazza, with the street sellers throwing flouro whizzing toys way up into the air, and a busker playing the oboe. We have a nive Italian meal... and get into...

wish I could tell you we were out exploring but I can assure you, its 3pm and we are definitely inside! Brett is snoring and I am lounging in the hotel robe as we siesta in the hottest part of the day. Yesterday at this time we had just got on the hopon hopoff bus. Yes after almost 14 hours asleep we felt compelled to get outside. Unfortunately it is about 34 deg at the moment and the bus is ruthlessly hot and terribly slow as it shares the road with so many oth...