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...

We have finished in san francisco, after two slighty dodgy weather days! We are not complaining though. The plane across was smooth, all the better for sleep. The hotel Nikko was superb and central. We shopped and shopped, unsuccessfully i might add on thursday for shoes for brett. We went to Macy's, Neimann Marcus, ecco and every shoe store we came across. Never mind, to Italy we go and i believe they have shoes there...... We ate at my fave italian restaurant,...

Pre trip and Brett is familiarizing himself with iPad!! And writing conference paper