Rome.

We've made it to Rome.
After being awake for more than 24 hours (with a couple of short naps), and being on planes for at least 15 of those hours, we made it to Rome... only to realise that I had forgotten to print out the details for our accomodation (oops). It was about 10:30 at night and we headed toward the train station at the airport to catch the train in to Termini station, which is in the middle of town. A bunch of American girls ran past us, and we realised that the last train to Termini was about to leave, so we followed them. Luckily it was still on the platform and we made it.

We reached Termini some time around midnight, and pretty much as soon as we got off the train, people were coming up to us trying to sell us information about hostels etc. We had heard that Rome is infamous for this kind of thing, and the best thing to do is to say no and keep walking... we had a hostel anyway... we just didn't know quite where it was. After a couple of frantic phone calls to family (apparently Joseph doesn't like being called at 7:30 in the morning... or was it 6:30?) we still didn't have the address. We headed off in the general direction that we remembered from looking at a map previously, and after a couple of minutes stumbled across an internet cafe that was still open! 5 minutes in and out and we had the address, which apparently was only a block away from our current location! Nice.

The next day (yesterday) was spent mostly recovering from sleep deprivation, but we went for a small walk to get some groceries etc, as we will be staying here for 5 nights.
If you are ever in Rome, be aware that for cars, the traffic laws are a mere suggestion, and that scooter drivers have a death wish.

Today I think we're going to go check out the Colosseum and maybe some other stuff.

Laters.

J