Day 1, May 26, 2011

Italy 2011

Day 1

We had high hopes that what would prove to be our quickest trip to Europe would prove to be our easiest.  Sadly, we left our luck in Las Vegas and the plane trip was wearing.  We had two flights to arrive in Rome, one from Las Vegas to Philadelphia, and the second from Philly to Rome.  The seats in both US Airways planes were so tightly spaced they are best suited for gymnasts, ballerinas, and yogis.  When you are confined to a plane for eight hours, comfort is a consideration.  We also had such a non-existent layover in Philadelphia that we had to ‘run’ from one concourse to another in 20 minutes.  I kept thinking about O.J. and the Hertz commercials.  No one seemed to be filming us . . . nor were there any hurdling moves.

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None-the-less, we arrived this morning and are already melding into Rome.  We like the adventure that comes with a ‘foreign’ land and language.  La vita è bella in Italia!  Life is good in Italy . . . much like what we remembered it and why we returned.  We had a great lunch at a place we ate at once last year, and the staff actually remembered us. We checked into a hotel where we stayed on our first trip in 2004. It is located on the fourth floor of an ancient building. They remembered us here, too, and we remembered them.  We are writing the blog as we are sitting in an open courtyard sipping wine and discussing multiple dinner options while a pianist is accompanying a student singer at the music school two floors below.

We are here, we’re safe, and we’re sleepy.