Travel to Rome and Meet Jan

We woke up early to a message from Jan that her flight out of Toronto had been delayed to 0100h due to mechanical issues and debated what to do. We left our Barcelona Hotel at 0710h to catch the metro to Plaza Espanya to catch the Airport Bus but the bus driver would not accept our Hola card. He was wrong -- I checked again, but there was no time to sort it out, so we took a taxi from a nearby hotel (€32, ouch!) but made up the time and found ourselves to our gate with time to spare. We were we very careful packing to be sure we were not overweight for carry on with Vueling, but they didn't weigh us. This is a low cost carrier and we forgot the coffee offered in a paper cup came with a €3.50 charge (ouch!). We got to Rome on time about 1100h, had a quick lunch and Doug headed into Rome to meet with our host to check into our apartment near Piazza Barberini. Nancy stayed at the airport to meet Jan's plane at 1600h (was to come in at 1130h). She occupied herself with Penguins at the Eataly just a floor up from the Terminal 3 departures where Jan was expected in. Finally met up close to 1700h and had an Italian style taxi ride into our accommodation (€55 ouch again!). Jan was short on sleep and we were tuckered out, too much so to get anything from a nearby grocery store so went to Ristorante Claudia basically outside our door and had (what was a really excellent) dinner. Pizza for Nancy and Jan and a proper Roman dinner of Cacio e Pepe and Scaloppine for Doug. Jan was really tired so got into bed right away as we had booked a four hour Golf Cart Tour of Rome the next morning.Read more