Chillax

Don’t fret people this will be brief. The weather forecast all week has been for rain all day today, and they were right. After our big day yesterday and 16 days on the go, we have declared today a day of rest.

Sleeping in to the sound of heavy rain was divine. We sat around and drank coffee and had vegemite on toast, so it wasn’t a waste bringing it all this way. Some very heavy downpours made us very happy that were indoors. It is 11 degrees at around noon. Barb did venture out for some shopping briefly and we got quite a thunderstorm around 5pm which was cool.

To distract from our laziness, a little tale about parking in Rome. It is bizarre. Most cars are very small so you can park in any direction, and on any corner. The red car below is parked believe it or not and remained there for more than a day. Double parking is common as well, up on footpaths, in driveways. There must be online groups dedicated to this. There are very few SUV’s and none of the big ones. We did see some parking inspectors last night, they must be very busy.

There is a restaurant about 30 metres from the front door of our building which we have kept up our sleeves for a rainy night and tonight was that night. The menu was all in Italian so it was a bit of pot luck. We has some bread, carpaccio beef and a selection of other wafer thin meats.

The pastas we shared for main were both superb, not that we really know what we had. Same with dessert, one was like a chocolate ice cream and the other like a lava cake. Both wonderful but would have been better combined rather than eaten separately.