Roma

After the usual long flight we arrived safely and have settled in to our apartment.  Rome is as fantastic as always and it is great to have our family all here together. 

We've been walking around old haunts and eating great food, drinking great coffee and of course the obligatory gelati - been to Giolitti twice as well as another place :)
Giolitti 

 The weather is perfect -mid 20s.The cameras have been working overtime and I'll post some photos asap -there are already 100s to choose from.

Last night we had dinner at Taberna Recina in San Giovanni, our favourite restaurant in all of Rome. The food and wine are always amazing and all of the people working there are incredibly friendly and welcoming. A great place -I only managed a few photos, we were all too quick to try everything.

 Five Greedy Australians are much worse than the Two Greedy Italians, no time for photos :)

This pasta looks simple but it was one of the tastiest that I have had in a long time -pumpkin and gorgonzola, perfectly made.  I ate all of it :)

Rob has already done a few runs, the rest of us have just been strolling around taking it easy. 

Near our apartment in San Giovanni, autumn is late and all of the trees still have bright green leaves

Inside the Pantheon -bag contains pjs, we packed a bit too light :)

The Colosseum always looks amazing

We're all doing our best at speaking Italian and all managing to make ourselves understood. In general Italian people are really patient when you try to speak Italian and we're sure to be having lots of conversations in 'broken Italian' and 'broken English' :)

Yesterday we spent a rather disastrous time on one of those 'hop on hop off' open tour buses.  There were demonstrations -who knows over what- and the bus was stuck in traffic forever.  We got off as soon as we could having seen very little. 

We're having a great time and I'll post some photos asap.
Ciao a tutti

Giolitti

Ciao Italia

We're in Rome and loving it! We've walked heaps and eaten potato pizza at one of our favourite pizzerias at Re Di Roma. We also managed to get to Giolitti and have the obligatory gelato :) Most importantly we bought tickets for the Roma/Lazio game on Sunday night.
Feeling a bit addled by jet lag at the moment but hope that all of our walking today will help us to get over it quickly. We're staying near Piazza Tuscolo in Rome and love it because there aren't many tourists around, the food is great and so far everyone has spoken Italian with us. We'll post some photos tomorrow.