Today 1,500 people disembarked from our ship in Rome, and another 1,500 came on board! So, we have a full house for the rest of the trip. (Both earlier segments were full as well.)
On our last cruise, one of of our fellow passengers said he needed a day that was not a port day and a day that was not a sea day (too many interesting things on the ship to do) so that he could just rest and catch up. Well, today we did that! This port was two hours from Rome by bus and since it was Monday, many museums would be closed. So, since Doug and I had been to Rome before and there really wasn’t enough time to really do much once we got into Rome, we decided to just skip this port.
Doug did decide to get off the ship and just take the free shuttle into the port town of Civitavecchia to use an Internet cafe and stock up on diet Cokes for the rest of the trip. While he was walking, he tripped when the sidewalk and street (same color) separated slightly and he literally fell down. He had his hands in his pocket, and to catch the fall, he pulled them out just as he went down. Of course, his camera was around his wrist in his pocket, so that hit the pavement, opened, and out came his little card, etc. It turned out he was OK (as was the camera once he reassemble it) – he just got some really hum dingers of bruises on his hand and knee and twisted his ankle pretty badly. It caused us to decide not to go off the ship alone any more!
We rested in the afternoon, and then had a wonderful dinner in the Pinnacle just for two. We were in bed early (9:30 p.m.) because we had an early start in Florence the next day.
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