Castra praetoria

Today we arrived in Rome. We travelled on the Frecciorossa - the very fast train.

Unfortunately, it wasn't as fast as it was advertised, despite reaching speeds of 299kmh at one stage. It arrived in Milan 30 minutes late, which meant we missed the connecting train to Rome by one minute, along with about 100 others.

We were offered the next train 45 minutes later and even though it wasn't the Business Class we had booked and we had separate carriages, we took it. We were beyond caring at that stage.

Anyway, we got to Rome only an hour later than planned and headed straight to the hotel restaurant where we made an obvious choice - pasta followed by gelato and cake, which was sensational.

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