Travel days are always stressful. Getting everything repacked, making sure you don’t leave anything and making al your connections is never fun but has to be done.

We had a late start time due to the train schedule. We wanted to go directly to Rome so that was 11:48. That gave us time to enjoy one more full breakfast at the hotel. Margaret and I were packed and ready so we just lingered in the breakfast room until they were closing it down. I will miss the croissants and cheese when we are back to AirBNBs.

The cab ride down from the hotel was crazy. The roads are so narrow but still twisty with lots of corners. I felt certain he would have scratched the side of the car on some of the turns but he made it. He did bring in his side mirror for some extra room on some of the streets. We got to the train station with no incidents and had about a 40 minute wait.

Perugia was the origination point for the train so it was there early and we went ahead and boarded. Sadly it was not on track one so we had to go down and up the stairs to get over to the track so again I am wishing I had packed less (not regretting my purchases at all) so that my luggage was lighter.

The train got fuller and fuller as we moved toward Rome so I finally had to get my bag up on the rack. I was actually quite proud that it could be done. Bob had to help and by help basically he did it but we got it up there.

We had to convince Jeff that we didn’t want to do the metro from the train and went with taxis instead. You can order taxis on the uber app and they show up about $15 cheaper but often they are slower to come. Both Clark and I ordered taxis and got Prius. we had to fit 7 people, 7 suitcases and 7 backpack/ bags in. It was a tight squeeze but we all made it to the house.

It took us a while to get in. I was supposed to let them know when we arrived and they would remotely open the outside door. When they responded that it was open another day was trying to get in so we were standing back away from the door and didn’t get to it before it closed. Then they didn’t respond again. At 3:30 the door unlocked because there were some business in the building as well so we just waited until then and luckily the door to the apartment stayed unlocked until we got there.

The apartment looked just like the pictures. Plenty of room but nothing fancy. No 17th century fresco here but it was fine.

We were all starving so we basically dropped our stuff and headed out for food. we found a restaurant just down the road called Zig. It was close had pizzas and a bar so it would work. Turns out it was perfect and we had a great time. The hostess/manager was a lot of fun and gave us good tips about getting around Rome and what to try and what to skip. The pizza was delicious a totally different style than Perugia (thin crust and less cheese) and the alcohol was generous pours. She told us where the grocery was so we headed there after to get wine, water and a few snacks.

Once we were back at the apartment everyone was tired so we were calling it a day and just having some of our wine we just bought. Kelle and I decided to get back out for a gelato but it was only around the corner so we didn’t have to go far.

Not a busy day but we made it to our third stop so still a good day in Italy.