Day 38 28th September Florence to Rome

 After a quick breakfast we were off to see the sights, first stop Ponte Vecchio (Gold Bridge) it was the only bridge in WW2 that wasn’t bombed and it was built in 1345 we had to park a little bit from it so had a nice walk looking at the sights before getting on the extremely busy bridge, was even a couple there having wedding photos done, after spending some time looking and taking pictures we made our way back to the car and headed for the Duomo that nearly killed me when we were here years ago with our friends Penny and Ash I decided that Pete and Julie could go have a look I wasn’t going near it. After a bit more looking around it was time to head for Rome. We didn’t realize just how busy Rome was going to be due to the Ryder Cup which made getting accommodation impossible, once again we headed out to a very beautiful but old town where Julie had found us some accommodation it turned it to quite an experience. It’s a walled town and no one speaks English our navigation system had a few hiccups and we couldn’t find it, so Julie tried for the second time to get some help from a local but all she could say was yes she had heard of this place and that we would have to be there by 7pm as they close the streets to cars by now it was almost 6.30 so we tried again eventually we ended up coming across a little square and we asked a woman who was coming out of her house, she said she couldn’t speak English but got her young daughter who could speak a little with that we somehow ended up with an elder guy in our ca giving us directions. Thank god we found it but it turns out that it was unavailable the site should have said December only so off went. Eventually we ended up back in   Civitavecchia and checking every hotel managed to get rooms in the hotel that we stayed at 11 years ago with Penny and Ash it wasn’t much then and its lots worse now supposed to be a Mercure hotel now so the signs say.






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