Yes, well never mind. So we missed our flight to Rome but just a smidge....... that blasted New York traffic. We took a walk around the city and found Grand Central Station, then headed down to the Empire State Building. The day was very suny and clear and there weren't any real queues (only took about 15 mins o get to the top). So it was really worth it.
Anyhow, we did manage to get onto the next flight to Milan about half anhour later at 5:45 pm, rather than wait another whole day in New York. Just as well we had our trusty Eurail Passes so when we landed in Milan we took the bus to the main train Terminal (which was a vey long 2 hour trip) and then jumped onto the next train to Rome. The train trip was great, lunch served in the dining car of aparagus risotto, beef and Torte to finish (along with a bottle of Chianti - of course). When we arrived at the Rome Termni, we just hadto grab the Metro which to us to our B&B, arriving at about 5:00 pm. So a very, very long day that the kids coped with brilliantly. Brian and I are even still talking.
The B&B has tuned out to be a little gem, we can literally see the Vatican wall from the front gate, is right on the Metro line which takes us directly to all the sites we want to see and back to the train Termini when we need to travel to Venice.
View from front door of Rome B&B
Have to go now, the washing is ready at the laundrette and I haven't been able to get into connect mail (typical), internet fine but won't log me i (will have to try again later).
Love to all,
Caio
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