Tuesday today, and we head for Rome. First along the coastal road and we found a nice spot by the sea to have our picnic. The sea was rough enough to have surfed on I think. After lunch we took a deep breath and hit the autostrade again and attacked Rome.

We knew it was going to be fraught but based on past experience, it was nowhere near as difficult as finding your way through Paris!! Yes, of course, we got lost. But from hitting the ring road to finding our hotel took us only about an hour, and as our hotel is in the centre of Rome we feel it was a pretty good achievement. The car is now safely locked away in a subterranean garage, so Jeff can relax and enjoy sightseeing now.

We plan to go on a Rome by bus trip tomorrow to get our bearings and then we will have a better idea of what we will want to see in more detail. We did manage to visit the Santa Maria Maggiore this afternoon and a basilica near the Plazza del Republica that has intrigued us, but we cannot find too much information about it. As soon as we are able to publish some photographs we will and you will see why it was so intriguing.