November 4 Last Day

Our amazing adventure has almost come to an end. We cleaned up Lily's lovely home then drove back to Brindisi to catch a flight to Lisbon then on to Rome but there was a slight glitz. I couldn’t check us into the Rome - Lisbon flight because although it’s booked through ITA, it’s a TAP flight.

Boarding from Brindisi on ITA was a bit chaotic compared to the Ryan flight to get there.

In Rome, we had a 3 hour lay over, so headed to Prima Vista Lounge again. This was a different one from before - and equally calm with lots of good Italian food & wine. Love traveling like this - wish we’d used our RBC Concierge before as it gives us 12 visits to lounges per year each. We’re both now down to 10 visits.

Once we knew what gate the Rome Lisbon flight was going from we headed out. There was already a long queue. I manoeuvred myself up to the counter and told them our seat dilemma - we were placed in different rows in the middle. Not good. A sweet young girl was able to change us both to row 11 - only problem was it’s the emergency exit so I had to check my carry on. Not happy about that, but whatever. . . . .Peter could take his large backpack on board. Interesting in that I was assigned 11A, and would naturally have taken my carry on with me, but because we changed Peter’s seat, I was told I had to check it in. Oh well, whatever, it worked out OK in the end.

We also played the “old man” card. and asked to be boarded early. These young girls can’t believe Peter is 83 . . . they go on & on about it. I get less attention . . .😉
Only to say, after hearing this we were told to go to the priory lane - and no we weren’t with the wheelchairs this time - but got on super quick. As we went through, the young girls told all the others how old we were.

Good fun but the only problem was waiting for my checked bag to appear. It finally did and then we tried to phone Hotel Star Inn for their shuttle service. They didn’t reply. After waiting a while, Peter asked a police officer who said it was a 4 minute walk away. Needless to say, we walked.
The hotel is funky - love it. Lots of pics of movies stars - hence the name.
All in all another good day. Tomorrow we head home.Leia mais