Final Chapter - Rome and home

Our final few days was spent in a very hot Rome. But this did not stop us doing all the Rome things like St Peters, Pantheon and Colosseum.

Our Airbnb accommodation was sensational being in a great location and being well air-conditioned.

Our trip home turned into a 52hr epic after we were held up in Rome due to a bushfire in a pine forest adjacent to the airport.  Result was that we landed in Istanbul at 1am having missed our connection to Singapore.

The lounge attendants at Turkish Airline did a great job to get us on a BA (bloody aweful) flight back to London and then QF10 from London to Melbourne.  Pity the other ground staff in Istanbul were not as helpful so it took a few hours to get this organised.  Also pity the luggage did not exhibit the same flexibility as Marg & I.  Therefore still to see the cases!