November 20 - Civitavecchia Italy

We made it to the Italian port city of Civitavecchia, near Rome, after a long day in transit.  We left home in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday and arrived early in the evening on Wednesday, Italian time.  As one would expect we were exhausted.   We had a nice meal in a restaurant overlooking the marina and then slept for 11 hours.

We met a nice couple from South Africa at breakfast this morning.  They were in transit for 31 hours. We don’t know how they do it.  I wonder how long it took our friends, John and Heather to recover from their trip home from Africa, which took 33 hours.  Six hours in those small cramped seats are just about our limit.

We flew with British Airways and found it to be about average with the other airlines that we have traveled with.  Our connecting flight from Heathrow airport in London to Rome was delayed about an hour because the plane we were scheduled to be on had been hit by lightning on its way into London and they had to prepare another plane.

Our taxi ride to the hotel was an experience.  The taxi driver was driving most of the time about 120Km/hr with a cell phone in one hand and scratching his head with the other.

It looks like we brought over those strong winds that have been battering Port Stanley the last couple of weeks.  Last night the wind was howling and today most people here are wearing their winter coats.

Today we are going to walk around the village here.  The Queen Elizabeth 2 is in port and that should be interesting to see.