Rome and rain!

Wednesday 7-10-15 
We left Montebello early in the morning and were hoping for about 4 hours of driving to get to Rome. Unfortunately we were delayed due to our lovely tour leader, Ben loosing or having had stolen, a large amount of money and his bank cards. The coach driver did some backtracking to a place where Ben had to pay a tax for all of us to enter Italy in the vein hope the money may have been there but unfortunately it was not to be. There had been a thunderstorm during the night and the rain started following us to Rome. We stopped for a break and was treated to a lightning and thunderstorm show while having coffee. When we arrived at our hotel around 1pm the thunderstorms continued and unloading our suitcases from the bus had to be done in the pouring rain. We were to do a walking tour of Rome in afternoon but it was canceled due to the rain. We were lucky though as our hotel is very nice and right next door to a large shopping centre with a great food court and many high end Italian shops. Most of us spent the afternoon here before returning to the hotel for a magnificent group Italian dinner. We will be doing both a Vatican City tour tomorrow, followed by our Rome walking tour.