Well, what can I say about a travel day? I am typing on an Italian keyboard which is indeed different from a French keyboard.
Anyway, our travel day consisted of some souvenir shopping, but nothing too hard core. We did check out the Bon Marche, which would probably be the equivalent of a Bergdorfs in NY. Which means we looked but did not touch.
Afterwards, we caught the metro to the RER C and transferred to the RER B. All of this with Big Red in tow. Mostly, that sucked, but at least some nice french men helped bring the stupid thing down the stairs. I am going to have to rethink my luggage.
We got to Orly airport with plenty of time. When we finally did get on the EasyJet flight, it was pretty much a cattle call like Southwest. The flight was smooth and we got into Rome Ciampino airport safely. Unfortunately, though, we did not get a stamp on our passport cause the airport caters to the smaller airlines, like EasyJet and RyanAir that fly in Europe.
We got picked up by the shuttle service provided by the hotel and we could not decide if the driver reminded us more of Fat Tony from the Simpsons or a character from the Sopranos. He was awesome and I could barely understand a word he said.
The hotel is pretty cute. It is a bed and breakfast run by an Italian couple. The guy greeted us when we checked in, gave us lots of candy and a map of Rome, and showed us to our room. He is really sweet. The room is small, but we get AC and we get to open our window to an italian street. We went down the street to a Trattoria and got ourselves a quick dinner (or as quick as the Italians do it) of pizza, which was amazing and inexpensive.
Okay, that is all for now. Ciao!
