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Rome seems to have the ability to impose minor mishaps on me that send all my best-laid plans awry. It's a city far more suited to people who just head out and follow their nose. Indeed, if I were capable of enjoying myself while doing that, then it is definitely what I would do.
Yesterday I had intended to get to the Catacombs (about a mile and a half south-south-east of the Colosseum) while the temperature was still high (because the Catacombs are COLD, man), returning north-north-west via the Coloseum and thence north to the Fontana di Trevi, AKA Three Coins In The Fountain.
It didn't take long for that plan to get screwed.
After I hopped off my second bus at the Largo Argentina (about half a mile north-west of the Colosseum), I decided to take a quick picture of the cats that live in the Roman ruins on that square. They don't look that healthy, TBH. But I took a snap anyway, only to be told that there was "No Card In Camera".
Yep, I'd forgotten to take the SD card out of the card reader connected to the Netbook and re-insert it in the Pentax.
The logical thing now was to look for a camera shop, a venture I have followed before, but in Cannes. I headed north up Via Corsa (this is the wrong direction to get to the catacombs), and got about half-way up before I saw a shop down a side street that seemed to be an optician's and a camera shop. You walk in and a bloke in a white coat is sitting behind a desk. You have to approach this bloke (no wandering around the shop, thank-you-very-much) and explain what you want. He sent an assistant off to get the relevant card, who returned, wrote out a receipt, and put it on the cash desk, where you had to pay someone else (a bit like the old system at Foyle's).
( one shedload of pictures )
Yesterday I had intended to get to the Catacombs (about a mile and a half south-south-east of the Colosseum) while the temperature was still high (because the Catacombs are COLD, man), returning north-north-west via the Coloseum and thence north to the Fontana di Trevi, AKA Three Coins In The Fountain.
It didn't take long for that plan to get screwed.
After I hopped off my second bus at the Largo Argentina (about half a mile north-west of the Colosseum), I decided to take a quick picture of the cats that live in the Roman ruins on that square. They don't look that healthy, TBH. But I took a snap anyway, only to be told that there was "No Card In Camera".
Yep, I'd forgotten to take the SD card out of the card reader connected to the Netbook and re-insert it in the Pentax.
The logical thing now was to look for a camera shop, a venture I have followed before, but in Cannes. I headed north up Via Corsa (this is the wrong direction to get to the catacombs), and got about half-way up before I saw a shop down a side street that seemed to be an optician's and a camera shop. You walk in and a bloke in a white coat is sitting behind a desk. You have to approach this bloke (no wandering around the shop, thank-you-very-much) and explain what you want. He sent an assistant off to get the relevant card, who returned, wrote out a receipt, and put it on the cash desk, where you had to pay someone else (a bit like the old system at Foyle's).
( one shedload of pictures )