Two Adventurers

FREGENE  – 21 October 2009

Yes, I know we’ve been a bit slack getting the Italian connection coming through but it’s not always easy to find Broadband or Wifi everywhere!  So – we finally arrived at Rome’s  Leonardo da Vinci Airport after a very long 13hr flight on Cathay Pacific. No complaints there though –  it was as smooth as butter all the way and the food was great too! Even managed to get around  5 hours sleep so that was a real bonus and we both wore the stretch stockings to avoid the dreaded DVT.

Had to wait over an hour at the airport for the hotel car to arrive and drive us to Fregene, a nice beachside suburb only 20mins from the airport. We had pre-booked La Conchiglia Hotel on wotif.com while in Hong Kong, and decided  to stay there near the beach so we could relax and recover a little without the hustle and bustle of a huge city to contend with.  As you’ll see from the photo, the hotel was not grand by any stretch of the imagination but in fact it was very comfortable, relatively modern inside with helpful and pleasant staff. Managed to find a Lavanderia (coin op laundry) after a short walk into the village and sat with our inexpensive capuccinos (€0.70c) and pastries while waiting for the washing to dry.

A nice walk around the village showed us some attractive three storey homes on huge blocks of land. Their Roman owners use them as weekend getaways or for longer vacations, however now they were all tightly locked up since the warm weather had finished.