Well now is the time to think about heading back to dear old Maine. After arriving back in Rome from the Isle of Capri, we spent an afternoon with our hosts who stayed in Rome. We were rather tired especially from the 3 hour hike around the island, so we visited the Pantheon and a couple very old churches and returned to the hotel for a rest before our last dinner together. We had a superb restaurant that was recommended by friends, and it had very good Italian cuisine! I had ravioli stuffed with fish and others had roast pork, zucchini and pasta, pumpkin soup and roast beef. It was a perfect last dinner for a perfect European visit. After the meal, we all jumped on the metro (subway) and headed back to the Trevi Fountain and threw in a coin each indicating that we surely would all be back one day in the future.
Yesterday morning early, we took a flight back to Vienna and it was only one and a half hours long. We flew Austrian Airlines. Back at the Vienna airport we said our last goodbyes to our family. It was bittersweet in that we will not meet again for quite some time.
Off in a taxi to our hotel and after we were settled, we got back on the metro and in a few stops we were back in the heart of Vienna. We shopped for a few more Mozart chocolate candies and had a true Vienna sausage. The have long rolls that they pierce with a metal instrument and add the mustard in the hole and then the long sausage. It really was quite good. We were not really very hungry so it was perfect. We then went for our last cafe in the city and returned to our hotel.
We went to bed at 7:00!! This is because our flight leaves at 10:20 this time and arrives in Toronto, Canada at 3:10. We have a 9 hour flight, so you can see we have 5 hours that will disappear on us. Though it is 3:10 in Canada, our time will be 8:10. We will visit Mary Kenyon, a very old friend for five hours and get on our last plane to Boston. Our body will be saying that it is 1:00 in the morning when we board the flight and 4:00 in the morning when we arrive in Boston. However, back in Boston it will only be 11:00 in the evening. I am sure we will sleep on the plane and on the ride home. Well, I must get ready to take the last taxi to the Vienna airport and then off to North America again!! Did you ever read the poem about going around the world but there being no place like home? I remember a line..."Tis fine to visit Venice, and it's great to visit Rome, but when it comes to living, there's no place like home." So its home again and home again America for me, my heart is turning home again and there it longs to be......" cannot remember the poet, but I shall look it up:) I hear the horn of the taxi....we are off again!
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4 comments:
did you want to leave or would you stay there if all of your friends were there
I would stay...I loved it!
I would stay...I loved it!
Was it fun there?? If you could ever go back would you ever go back?
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