The Honeymoon Trip - Rome

10/25-10/27/2005

Late arrival, wanted to stay in Venice
Horrid train ride from Venice to Rome
Arrived after midnight
No one in information center at train station spoke english
Crooked cab driver
I'd walk a mile for a hotel room! (with 10 days worth of luggage and souvenirs)
Cobblestone
Ancient vs. modern

"Smeralda! Smeralda!"
Customer service at the Smeralda

"Your wife brings home Italian man as souvenir!"

Three good men (night check-in clerk at competing hotel, night check-in clerk at the Smeralda and taxi driver to airport)

The flight back - reality starts NOW!