Coloseum

Our plan for today - Metro to Piazza Rebublica to church of Santa Maria D'Angeli (beautiful). It had information about how Gallileo discovered that pendulums swung regularly and could be used to measure time. Then we walked to the Roman Forum, built as a place for markets and places of worship, Palentine Hill and the Coloseum which is the largest amphitheatre ever built in Rome. The word arena comes from the Latin for sand which was used on the floor.

We also went by lift to the top of the monument to Vittorio Emmanuele 2 - the first king of a unified Italy-  with views over the whole of Rome.

What a HOT day it was. Amazing sites to see, the Colloseum held 50,000 people!

Back to the apartment for tea as we're all so tired.

Italia!!

Waiting for our bags at Ciampino airport in Rome.

Met Matteo at the apartment who showed us what was what - lovely big apartment.

Out by Metro from just outside the apartment to Spagna for a wander and some tea.

Here's to a PB 👍🏻

Cam and I went to parkrun this morning. Cam had invited Ben and wanted to beat him!

Cam got a PB - 21:01. Grrr to that last 1 sec. (He did come in before Ben though)

I got a PB - 29:17  11 seconds off my previous PB 2 weeks ago.

Luke Martin got a PB - only 30 secs slower than his brother! I can see some competition coming there. And Tom Carpenter also got a PB on his 100th parkrun.

Well done to all of us. And the other 80 runners who also got a PB this week. 

Sara Cox, Bucks Fizz, Billy Ocean and a box of Pinot

Fun night at Rochester Castle with Steve, Mary, Karen, Andy, Anna and Paul.

Lovely warm evening at a very packed Rochester Castle. Great music, good company and lots of wine!

Happy birthday

Had a lovely birthday. A lovely meal cooked by Cam (eggs benedict). Followed by a film (Into the woods). Lots of flowers, including a bunch from my special son xx

Duke of Edinburgh

Cam passed his assessed expedition this weekend, Friday to Sunday. The assessor said his was a very competent group and that they should consider the silver award. Well done to Ben, Cam, Lewis, Sam and Tom.

They were very tired as they walked about 40k with their full packs. Food started well - chicken tikka curry (after we re-purchased some chicken en-route to the Swattenden Centre as we'd left the first lot in the fridge) but went down hill as the pitta and wraps started to dry out over the weekend!

Weather - baking hot Saturday - drizzly rain Sunday.

Well done A Team.

Pretty Muddy

While Cam was sweltering on his DofE weekend, the girls got muddy at Mote Park for a 5k Race for Life!!

Before:-

                                              

 

And After:-