Day 30: Arrivederci Roma… Destination Sydney

A sleep in!!! A sleep in!!! Something I have not experienced for such a long time as sleep is so overrated when you are on pilgrimage. Due to our changed flight arrangements we were not leaving 'til the early afternoon and so had the luxury of an easy start and pack and redistribute the weight in the bags! The walk over to the terminal was an interesting one… we could see a large number of people assembled at the end of one of those moving footways and were not sure of what was going on. It appears as though we walked right through the middle of a photo-shoot for a Fin Air commercial, but no one stopped us! Ah well, guess we will never know. 

Departures in Rome is a bustling place... planes go EVERYWHERE from Rome, literally. So we checked in and went to the lounge to pass some time. One last task after a spot of Duty Free shopping was to have our last Italian gelato before boarding .It wasn’t looking promising but we found somewhere and enjoyed the final serve of yumminess! On to the plane, destination Dubai. It was a great flight. Unfortunately I had hoped to get the last 5 days of blogs posted here in Dubai in the wee small hours, but as has been a constant theme of recent weeks, the wifi is hopeless, so dear readers, these blogs will be posted upon our return tomorrow! Fingers crossed!

One problem of flying home via Dubai is that the last sector is the long one. Left Dubai at 2:30AM, and arrived into Sydney in the evening. So some sleep and lots of movies kept us amused.

Where did the time go? The best part of coming home is having a smiling daughter ready to greet us, and the following day being Mother's Day meant a fabulous way of catching up.