Tivoli, the Villa d'Este and The Marist General House

Today started with a well deserved sleep in. At 9.00am we left for Tivoli, which is about 30 km from the centre of Rome and about an hour and a half journey from San Cesareo. When we arrived we were greeted by our guide, Guisseppe. He showed us around the stunning gardens of Villa d'Este. Did you know that Villa d'Este has over 500 fountains all of which are powered by gravitational force only!!! It also had the only working hydrolic powered organ in the world, once again working on gravitational force.

After the Villa d'Este the boys had some free time to visit Tivoli. Then we had a short journey over to the Marist General House. This is the mother House for the Marist Brothers in the World. Our guides, Br Jose and Br Edward, gave us a great tour of the House. They showed us what goes on in the house and how much work goes into the brothers community. We then went to a DFO style place where we got some time to go shopping. We all were like 15 year old girls shopping rather than 14-18 year old boys. Then we had the long journey back to San Cesareo.

Nat and Matt forgot to mention yesterday that we saw Br Greg. For all those parents who knew Greg, he is still the great cheery person he was 6 months ago. He is getting on well chilling in Rome with his Bro's. He was very pleased to see all the boys still fit and well.

Today was a great day and we still have many more to come.

Signing Off

Pat and Marco

T-Team for Wednesday