Well that was unexpected!

Will explain later.

Today marks the last day of our tour. We ate breakfast looking at Mt Vesuvius one last time before boarding the bus and heading back through the winding streets of Sorrento and hitting the autostrade for Rome.

The Sorrento Peninsula is a seriously beautiful place, the food was excellent, and the people friendly. The only negative - its beaches don’t match Australia’s.

It was a pretty uneventful trip back to Rome. It took about 3 hours.

Being a Saturday Rome’s streets were quieter than usual. That is until we hit the unexpected bit!

Seems Rome has a Mardi Gras. And it was today. And it started right outside our hotel!

Luckily we arrived about 2pm and it didn’t get going until closer to 3.30pm so we managed to get in and dump the bags before the streets were closed and the crowds descended.

We went for a walk around and ended up going to Trevi Fountain again. This time the water was flowing so we did the coin thing and walked around a bit. We had fun trying to get back into our hotel as by then the streets were jam packed and the music blasting. We hung out our hotel window and took some photos.

We then went to a local restaurant to say goodbye to our fellow travellers. Most of them head home or to other parts of Europe tomorrow. T and I are here until Friday so the adventure continues!Read more