by Jeniceves » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:53 pm
Hi! We arrived in Rome around 12:30 PM their time and our tour director moved our meeting up to 3:30 por 4 PM so that we could meet and get ready for the excursion that evening. If you are on the same schedule, you will not have much time to get into the city to see anything prior to the meeting. If you do not do the excursion, you will have all evening. The excursion was wonderful. We did have time the next evening to see the Pantheon on our own and have a great dinner there after our day touring. We did use the shuttle which was inexpensive and let us off near the site. The last shuttle back to the hotel is around 10:30 PM.
We arrived in London late afternoon, in plenty of time for dinner. We hopped on the underground and went to Harrod's and then asked a street hot dog vendor where the best pub in the area was and he pointed us to the Nag's Head, where we had a beer and ate at the pub 2 doors down. We got back to the hotel later that night and thoroughly enjoyed our first evening there without the constant touring we had done during the past 2 weeks! You will have plenty of time to meet someone for dinner that day. Have a wonderful trip!