24/07/2009
Up fairly early Rome and back to Spanish Steps and the Trervi fountain early to see them before the crowds the crowds turned up. Nice to sit and enjoy a coffee & brioche (Italian version, which looked very much like a croissant) before heading back to the convent via the Piazza del Quirinale (where the president lives), a couple of delightful small churches, and the San Carlo Quattro Fontane.
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Check-in at the airport took way too long (some problems with over booking?) and then we had an agonising wait in the security check line as they had set the metal detectors to pick up the tiniest thing, so everyone was getting checked… We jumped the que a little explaining to people that our flight was leaving in 15 minutes an managed to get through a little quicker. So rather than a relaxed coffee and stroll through the duty free, we waited in queues for 1.5 hours! We were still delayed for take-off by 30 minutes as there were 15 others still trapped somewhere in the Italian ‘efficiency’…
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Once on board (in row 12 just behind where all the [slightly noisy] babies get put) we had 12 hours to get acquainted with the interior of the Boeing 777. After some lunch/dinner I watched ‘Duplicity’ (not bad, starring Clooney & Roberts), read for a bit and then tried to sleep while listening to some chill music but only managed to get a couple of short naps. Watched the sunrise on our way into KL.
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