Rome Wrap-Up

We have spent the last three days in Rome. We depart in the morning to return home to New Zealand, a long journey flying Rome to Heathrow to Los Angeles to Auckland to Wellington.

I've not yet had an opportunity to gather my thoughts and write anything too meaningful, but thought I should post something to regular followers.

In a nutshell we've done the main tourist sites, these being Roman Forum and The Colosseum on day one, and Vatican City on day two. Today being day three, we've intentionally taken an easier day not visiting any main sites and staying away from the crowds.

In short - been there, done that!

Some statistics we've captured from our journey via various devices & sources:

48,000 kmflown
3891 Nautical Miles cruised
189 km walked *
430 floors worth of stairs climbed *
5305 photos totalling 136GB **
16 ports of stay
1 handbag purchased

* Does not include Mike's epic climbs in Kotor and Nafpflion.
** Does not include Helen's iPhone photos

Here's a couple of random photos from Rome until I can post something more comprehensive.

Evicted from the ship (on the grounds we had not purchased tickets for the next leg of the journey) and finally back on land in Italy in the port of Civitavecchia.

Helen sitting on a piece of marble ruin inside the Roman Forum.

Inside the Colosseum.

Mike savouring the cool, fresh drinking water from a fountain outside Vatican City.

I burst into laughter and took this photo then remembered that (a) we are not in Wellington and (b) it is not Sevens weekend, and these are real nuns.

More photos and details of the Rome visit to follow. I promise!