We arrived in Rome after what felt like a very long journey, but in fact it only felt that way as we had to get up at 03:30 in order to be in a taxi at 05:00 from the Vicarage to Heathrow.

  
After a smooth flight we picked up our coach and travelled into the centre of Rome.  The features of Day 1 for the weary travellers were the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps, which are currently being cleaned and restored.  The Trevi Fountain was very busy; I got some pictures but I’m struggling to get them to load here, but they are all in a Flickr album.

It was a weary party that finally arrived at the hotel at 19:00!

I am accumulating my photos here in case I don’t get time to blog or the photos will not load in future.