Had a lazy morning then checked out of the hotel and found our way back to Heathrow. On the Heathrow Express again - it really is a good way to travel between Heathrow to London - not the cheapest but really convenient.
At Heathrow we were reminded again of the funny way they deal with gates - they won't tell you which gate your flight leaves from until quite close to departure time. Turns out this time we had to use the transit to get to the 'B' gates.
We finally got onto the plane, only to sit there. For ages. It ended up being two hours; they couldn't start the left engine.
Of course this meant we arrived in Rome quite late. We had booked a transfer into Rome and fortunately they're well accustomed to dealing with late flights, we had no trouble finding our driver. The real surprise was the airport itself. We have heard that the airport (FCO) is just chaotic and were expecting lots of messing around and delays. But, immigration let us in without asking anything - stamp the passport and get out of here! Our suitcases arrived quite quickly too - as I said, not at all what I had expected.
Unfortunately though we missed our night tour of the Colosseum because of the flight delay. So, in keeping with last night's "inappropriate restaurants" theme, we ate at Chows Chinese Restaurant!
The hotel for the night was amazingly good - huge room with a large table and a comfortable bed, plenty of power points and air conditioning that really worked.
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