Saturday Sorrento to Rome

My purchases all squashed into my pack. The train from Sorrento to Naples was less crowded and thus more pleasant than the trip there last Saturday. We found a very pleasant café to eat in and wait till our train to Rome. This went smoothly. Helen and I said ‘goodbye’ to our friend M and caught a taxi to the Campo de Fiori where our lovely apartment is. Having stubbornly resisted taking taxis for many years, I have decided that I have proved my point (whatever that may have been) and may get used to taking taxis. Helen is a bad (or maybe good) influence. The apartment is quite spacious, on the 4th floor of an old building into the middle of which has been put a slightly scary skinny glass lift.

We went for a walk to the nearby Piazza Navonna. My friend Helen has a bit of a problem. She has great difficulty walking past book shops without books that she has to buy leaping out at her. This problem has been much commented on over the past 4 weeks. Imagine our hilarity when we walked into this large Piazza and found a book fair. There were many tents with displays of different books. Luckily we had a plan, which we stuck to. No extra books were bought.

We wandered along the river, taking photos, but the road alongside was full of noisy, smelly, traffic. So we went in search of a bar for a drink. When in Rome… Then it was a fairly average dinner but the atmosphere was good.

Tomorrow we are going out for the day with Helen’s friend and her husband.