Roman Forum from above

View of part of the Roman Forum from the top of the Flavian Palace on the Palatine Hill

Inside the Roman Forum

Roman villa within the Forum

The Colosseum is BIG (the clue's in the name!)

View of the Roman Forum from the Colosseum

Inside the Colosseum, Rome

I joined Denise in Rome for a long weekend, tagging it onto the end of her business trip there. I flew in on Thursday last week, and we stayed until the Monday. My flight out was a nightmare, my flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow being delayed by an hour because of high winds in the London area. I thought I was going to miss my connection to Rome's Fiumicino airport (in fact the ground staff at Heathrow originally told me that I had), but it was delayed as well, so I managed to get on it, luckily enough. Door to door from home to Denise's hotel took me 11 hours! The good news was that a meeting D thought she was going to have to have on Friday was cancelled, so we had the day to ourselves. We moved hotels, dumped our bags, and went exploring. Some of the best photos follow ...

Portree Pier. I'm rather proud of this photo

Didn't have nice weather all the time ...

View from our cottage on Skye

Denise's last Tri of the year pt 2

Checking for traffic while starting the run phase We celebrated with fish & chips (which, admittedly, Denise deserved more than I did).

Denise's last Tri of the year

Just completing the bike phase. Looking good!