11:19 So I have returned to Italy, this time a single lady but with my mum, dad will join us in Florence on Saturday. I collected mum from morden station last night in the middle of an English heatwave, so we went to Epsom racecourse for dinner and to enjoy the view.
A quick update generally, I've been working very hard recently on a project, still in Kingswood but may not be for much longer -7 days a week, 9/10 hour days for the last month, doing many hours and getting quite stressed
. Unfortunately I haven't had a very good time of it the last few months since Jan. Shortly after my return from Marrakech where I went with Han, Scott and Sanj for Sanj and my birthday, Hannah broke up with me which was quite upsetting as I was actually pretty happy and had felt that luck was on my side again. I think I find it more and more difficult to deal with people breaking up with me so it also didn't help when my personal trainer took a fancy to me, pretty much started having an affair with me, left her Gf and then a few days later left me, so now our friendship is also a bit ruined as I'm left in limbo waiting to see what might happen, trying to deal with my emotions and this constant emotional roller coaster I seem to be on, and once again, I just feel dumped and fed up, and all right in the middle of the busiest I've ever been at work, I haven't actually heard from my PT or another friend of hers in over a week and fear this silence is a way of saying game over. Makes coming on holiday feel a bit uneasy as I just want things to go back to the way they were, not this train wreck
.
Being a cheap airline our flight was at 645am which working backwards means getting the gatwick express at 420am and so getting up at 350am! Well there seemed to be little point in trying to sleep and both mum and I seemed to fail dismally to actually sleep at all. Still we got up and out to the airport, queued for ages for easyjet check in, finally got there and managed to sneak in a quick cup of tea and shared a sandwich for breakfast before boarding for the 2.5 hour flight to Fumicino airport. We bought the 'Bus Shuttle' ticket on the flight for €6 which I think was a bit much as I reckon Terravision charge less in fact. Still it was done so we set off to central Rome and to find our accommodation- the beehive near the Termini. All I really want to do just now is have a sleep!
13:05 Found the beehive unpacked, love it-mum has a bag of white powder- talcum powder...does NOT look like a small clear bag of talc to anyone else!
19:11 Had some lunch near hostel then, went to Termini station
. Bought 48hr tour bus tickets for €20 each with 110 open, this seems to be the best value by far. Set off on our tour and enjoyed the views, it's very warm and about 29 degrees.
Got off near the Trevi fountain and I was pleased to see that the scaffolding that was up had now gone, we walked down to the pantheon, sat down for a drink and to watch the world go by then found what had become a favourite ice cream shop just up a street to the right, which has 100s of different ice creams. We took our ice creams on a walk down to the fabric shop where mum spent about an hour looking at and buying fabric. We were in there so long that by the one we left there were clouds overhead and by the time we got to Ciro Ciro restaurant where we decided to have dinner we had seen lightning strike a couple of times and then a downpour! Everything now looks wet and we were considering taking the tour bus home as the last one is at 830 although I suspect the seats will be wet- we shall see.
Best thing today: the sense of being on holiday and being able to relax for a few days and leave the stresses I've had recently at home.
Back in Rome once again
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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