So we caught up on the laundry and while that was happening the maintenance man arrived to have a look at the dishwasher. We reported it not working on Friday night as it just made wiring noises and when the drain was pulled on the sink, water would leak from under the dishwasher.
After no more that five minutes he also had water leaking onto the floor and another five minutes he turned to us and said "kaput, do not use" along with some "ItalGlish".
With the rescheduling of the Tivoli day (to 2016?) it was decided to catch the bus (did I mention we are experts at this now?) and head off to the National Museum of Rome. This time our bus was air-conditioned and had a couple of spare seats. However, before long the local Italian Grandmother Association must have been alerted of Australian tourists sitting on a bus and were all ready at the next stop. Once boarded we promptly gave our seats to them.
The Museum was quite good, in fact they are so concerned about the artefacts, they have in house security with x-ray for bags and body scanner, just like the airport. We placed our bag on the x-ray scanner and the operator pressed a button, without even looking up from his smartphone. The bag passed through the scanner to the other end and he still hadn't looked up from his phone to check the contents on the screen. We then proceeded through the body scanner one by one and both of us set the alarm off, neither had taken coins, cameras and phones out of our pockets. As the security guards hadn't responded to the alarm or looked at the screen of the bag being x-rayed, we collected the bag and entered the museum.
The Museum contained many mosaics and these were just fascinating.
The evening was left to the magic of tourists invading the Spanish Steps or as we overheard one American call them, the 'Spanish Stairs'.
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