Monterosso – Rome – Day 39

This morning we move on to Rome and with most of our stuff already packed we are ready to go and its just a quick clean of the apartment. We head out around 7:30 to see if we can get some brekky and a coffee but nothing seems to be open. I think a few places are shut on Tuesdays so it is probably a good day to be leaving. We go back to the apartment and grab our gear and take the 10 minute walk to the train station. It is a beautiful day, sunny and blue skies and the walk along the coast to the station is awesome looking over the beach to the ocean. The train, as per usual is running late, this time by 10 minutes (not sure if I have mentioned how shit Trenitalia is?). The first leg to La Spazia Centrale is only 18 minutes long but we pull into the station on time, so work that out! The next train ends up being 20 minutes late so I think that means we have never caught a train in Italy that has ever arrived on time. It ends up being an hour wait on the platform but we meet an older couple from Perth and get chatting. This helps with passing the time and when we finally get on board our train carriage is a series of little rooms with 6 seats to a room and a corridor on the outside. We share the ride with a Canadian couple which wasn't too bad. When we finally arrive in Rome we decide to walk to the apartment as it is not far from the apartment we stayed in before. We get to our street in we don't have a number for the apartment so we just wander along until a gentleman yells out to us and he takes us up to show us the apartment. The apartment is stunning, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and the living, meals and kitchen are on the upstairs level. There is a long terrace type balcony over looking the street. We head of to do some food shopping before coming home and showering up and heading back out for some dinner. We just wander around for a while until we get down to the Pantheon where we stop for a meal. The food and service we shite but the entertainment out in the piazza was great. We contunue to wander after dinner making our way back towards our apartment. Valentino's, a gelato store we used to go to every night when we visited Rome last time is only about 50m from our apartment and the kids are excited because they loved the owner. He used to always talk and joke with them when we went in ( we even had a photo with him) and the gelato is awesome. Valentino's rates number 5 of 6,874 restaurants in Rome on Tripadvisor. 

Photos to follow. I'm tired and I'm going to bed.