We were woken early with Matt’s sister Jaq vomiting in the bathroom. Finally it was someone elses turn to be sick. We started off with Matt also feeling pretty ordinary and drove from the villa in Tuscany to Siena which took an hour. We drove around Siena stopping about every 5 mins to ask directions to Europecar. Everywhere we stopped we were given the same response – that it was very hard to find. Finally our luck changed when we pulled into a service station to ask there. We ran into the Europecar people filling up one of their cars. We ended up following them and finally found the car depot. They even called a taxi for us to get to the station in time to catch the train to Rome. We had to change trains once and it took 3 hrs in total in a over crowded extremely hot train.

Rome train station was chaotic. People going in all directions and Matt by this stage was feeling quite unwell. I was able to navigate our way to the hotel which was about a 15 min walk in the stinking heat with our heavy packs on. We finally arrived at the hotel, checked into our room and no sooner had we put our bags down that it was Matt’s turn to drive the porcelain bus. We spent night in the room and I ended up with take-away pasta and a bottle of wine.