Day 46: All Roads Lead....

Date: Tuesday 13^th May
Staying: Tiber Camping - Rome
Distance Travelled: 158.8 Miles
Song of the day: Road Trippin’ – Red Hot Chili Peppers

I would just like to point out it was Laurie taking the kindy nap yesterday, whilst I soldiered on, naming and tagging our photographs (now that is a massive job). That’s right, I hear the violins playing ;-) Also, I resent Laurinda’s comment about my beard and its Tom Hanks connotations. It is much tidier than that. I like to think its more Ewan McGregor in Star Wars than Tom Hanks.

Unfortunately, I have managed to pick up what ever bug Laurie had whilst we were in San Remo last week (more violins, I am on fire). This has had the effect of cutting short our viewing of Siena (although we saw what we went for), and also left me short of ideas and witticisms for today’s blog. This of course causes a problem when it’s a travel day, which means not much happens apart from driving, so you kinda of have to waffle on a bit (my English teacher always thought I was good at that. He wrote it on a lot of my work. I’ll consider it a positive ;-)). This is much easier when your brain is functioning fully.

So, today our extended road trip of Europe continued on its merry way. Today’s target – Rome!!! And for once on this trip, it was completely uneventful, except where we missed our turn off again. Damn!!! I don’t know what it is about being in Italy, but every turn-off we are looking for is labelled differently on the road, compared to what we are expecting from our map. In this case, we were expecting to see road E35, but it actually turned out to be E80. By the time we had figured out we were suppose to take it, we were well on our way to somewhere we didn’t want to be. Hmmmm, I am noticing an unwelcome theme here. (BTW, we have an up-to-date map. We would have had a Tom-Tom, but he had work commitments and couldn’t make it. Wassup Mr Lehmann). It probably didn’t help I wasn’t firing on all cylinders, but from past experience on this trip, my navigation has been called into question several times, so I probably wouldn’t have helped.

OK, have I waffled enough now? I think so. Hope you enjoyed it, and I promise to be on better form next time round. Well, at least I would have visited Rome on that day.