Friday, Sept. 16 – We woke up this morning to thunder, lightning and rain. We had arrived in Civitavecchia, Italy and most people on board were getting off the cruise so it took a while for us to leave the ship. We found a taxi guy who we hired for an hour to drive us around the city. Actually there is very little to see here but we tried. The driver took us up into the mountains to some ancient ruins which no one wanted to visit. As we drove around I dislike him more and more and so did everyone else. After about 45 minutes we asked him to drop us off in the center of town. We walked around and found a very nice restaurant and we had our first real Italian meal. When we got back to ship I found I had a Facebook message from a Morro Bay golf buddy, Linda. She was also in Civitavecchai and wanted to meet us for a glass of wine. We didn’t have time to do that but what a coincidence!