A reunion in Rome...

I just spent the weekend in Rome meeting up with my best bud from Oz - Shayela!!i had organised to meet her there while i was still in australia so it was something i looked forward to from the time i got home from oz.I've missed Shayela heaps so it was very exciting thinking about getting to see her again.

And what an eventful reunion...

The trip started after i'd had 3hrs sleep on the thursday night (due to my lack of organisation from being so busy at work and then staying up until midnight sorting stuff out and then having to get up at 3.30am to get ready to go to the airport).So,that was fine i tried to sleep a little bit on the plane journey and after being delayed on the runway for about an hour leaving Belfast,i eventually arrived in Rome just after 11am. The first scam happened when a very eager taxi driver basically kidnapped me after i got off the coach from the airport and took me to the hostel where i was to meet shayela,her mum,bro and sis.he gave me a price and i handed him some euros and looked in my wallet for the rest,thinking i could give him the exact money i asked for the note i'd given him back,however it had mysteriously changed from a 10 euro note to a 5 euro note in a split second!now,i know for a fact that i didn't have any 5 euro notes and the discussion in italian and english continued till i realised i just couldn't win and gave him the rest of the money.i was more interested in just getting to see shayela!

it was so awesome to see her again and felt like it had only been a couple of weeks since i'd seen her last rather than the 4 months since i've left oz.

we embarked on some sight seeing in the blistering heat and all was good until i started to feel sick and proceeded to search for corners in the streets where i wouldn't be noticed chucking up!so,i spent most of the rest of the avo spewing - lovely!i still continued to sight-see,i just needed to take spewing breaks every so often!ha ha!

so,after a bad night's sleep i ended up feeling quite a bit better in the morning.after only having left the hostel a short period of time we went to the underground station where the next bit of drama unfolded...