Philadelphia

Our drive through to Philadelphia was a long one, with narrow roads and many a wrong turn taken, we arrived quite a few hours after we wanted to so our tour was a whistle-stop one, we never even got out of the car! There was no time, so we drove right through taking in the sights, including the university, the skyline, and the very famous library. I never got the opportunity to run up the steps to the sound of the 'eye of the tiger' like the great Sly Stallone in the Rocky movies. Maybe it's better that we never stopped as I can only imagine how many sad tourists have pulled that stunt. I never wanted to be one of those statistics.

That only left us with the drive to Flavio's house to complete. It was pretty exciting as he never knew we were coming this week, we were meant to drive straight through to Massachusetts, but gave him a nice surprise as he was doing his gardening. We naturally had to go through to the diner down the road that evening with the entire family, overeating once again as is only possible in America.

It was fantastic to catch up, but our visit was a short one, as we had a drive to Cape Cod to look forward to in the morning.