Rome 2023 (Part Two)

I am so incredibly proud of our daughter: for all the anxiety and nerves prior to the flight, she seemed to feel completely at home in Italy almost from the first day, certainly the second. Nowhere where we ate questioned her wish for plain pasta - even if I wish we could have got some more protein into her! I was recording 15,000 - 25,000 steps a day here, so her little legs have kept up so well and she has been incredibly good company. Yes, once or twice, we had minor meltdowns; yes, our days were shorter than otherwise; yes, there were some things like the Vatican that we thought would be too overwhelming. But she has been interested and engaged and happy throughout... and now is slightly annoyed at my telling her how proud I am of her.