Saturday, July 7, 2018
Arrivederci Italia…Return Journey Home
We were down in the lobby of Hotel Nettuno at 5.00 am where our cabbie was waiting for us. He dropped us off to the train station at Piazza Cadorna from where Delyse, Nafisa and I took the Malpensa Express which dropped us off to Malpensa airport in about an hour.
At the airport, as Nafisa was leaving first, we saw her through her check-in formalities. Then, we proceeded to get our check-in done. When we all had our boarding passes, we said goodbye to Nafisa who was flying on to Paris for another three days in the City of Light.
Delyse and I found a McDonalds and had a bit of breakfast before we boarded our direct flight back to the US. We managed to get a fellow-passenger to exchange his seat with Delyse and sitting side and side and talking nineteen to the dozen, we watched a couple of movies and made our way back home. When I next opened the blinds on the window, we were right above the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, just off the coast of Massachusetts. A few minutes later, Block Island came into sight. It was a perfectly cloudless day along the East Coast of the USA and we could see so much before Howard Beach in Queens with its sunbathers and the skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan could be seen. We were home!
Delyse’s daughters, Natalie and Dani, were waiting to pick us up and drive us home. Needless to say, we regaled them with stories about the great, funny, irritating, stressful, absent-minded moments we’d had. And then, they were pulling up into my driveway and Llew was opening the door to us.
Our travels in Italy were well and truly done and we had come home to roost—to Rochelle’s Roost, my blog in which, I hope, you are reading this post.
Thanks for armchair-traveling with me. May the road always rise up to meet you…
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