What’s up, everyone?! Well, I just got back on the boat after a couple of hours in Rome. As we’ll return to “the Eternal City” two more times on our trip, we used this just as an opportunity to take a bus tour around the city.
Our boat is parked in a coastal village called Civitavechhia, about an hour by train from central Rome. On our trip in, the A/C in our train car was out making it a rolling sauna. Not the most comfortable I’ve been. And Rome today was HOT! And it’s only May, so supposedly it gets much much worse in the next couple of months. But, once on the tour bus, the air was cooled by the bus rolling. Doing the tourist thing, we passed by a few of the big sights, first the Coliseum and Circus Maximus, we passed by the Italian Arch of Triumph, got stuck in front of the Vatican as our bus stalled out, and then around to the Spanish Steps and back to the start. Once there, we again soaked up the local culinary scene this time feasting on… McDonald’s! So we’re not foodies.
Now I’m back on the ship and I feel kind of weird… I’ve worked off-and-on at Universal Studios for nearly 13 years now and I don’t like being back on the other side of the curtain. I want to know where the ship’s crew live, I want to know what they do during their off-hours (if they have to stick to certain parts of the ship away from guests or if they’re allowed to do what we do). You know, my brother is getting a tour of the ship’s bridge and all I care about is what the maid does when she’s not making beds. Oh well, for another day. :)
Tomorrow is Naples and Pompeii. My brother is climbing Mt. Vesuvius which seemed like tempting fate a little too much for me.
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