{"id":303,"date":"2009-07-08T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:41:49","slug":"destination-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Destination Roma!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With one of my best friends from New Zealand visiting, decided to tag along on a 16 day Eastern European tour with the Top Deck<\/a> company. We had to rendezvous our group at 2pm in the city of Rome, so needed a fairly early departure from London Gatwick to get there. Flying in with Easyjet to Rome Fiumicino, it was a smooth non eventful ride.<\/p>\n

\"G-EZAN<\/a>
\nCockpit of our Easyjet A319 (G-EZAN)<\/p>\n

\"Flying<\/a>
\nFlying over English countryside<\/p>\n

\"Alps<\/a>
\nFlying over the Alps<\/p>\n

\"Rome<\/a>
\nFirst view of Italy, village on outskirts of Rome<\/p>\n

Following this, we caught the recommended train from the airport with the Leonardo Express. This is where our first bit of trouble happened, as we weren’t told we had to validate tickets on a machine, despite just buying them from a cashier next to the trains. The \u20ac11 tickets, soon became an extra \u20ac50 on the train, after the conductor wasn’t accepting our lack of knowledge as an excuse.<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nAll smiles, about to board the Leonardo Express<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/a>
\nThe resulting fine, and expensive first day!
\n<\/p>\n

\"Bookmark<\/a>