The flat in Rome, despite all the graffiti, cyclone fences and homeless people we’d walked past, was relatively new and decked out with trendy Ikea furniture.

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The twelve-hour flight from Narita to Rome was uneventful even though the pilot started the flight by warning us there could be some turbulence and then flashed the seatbelt sign on several times for bumps that none of us could feel. My worst nightmare, a flight with four busting children where the seatbelt sign remains on the whole time. (more…)

We landed in Narita airport the same day they started a new security system. Not for people getting on the plane but for people getting off – us.
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