All’s Well That Ends Well is a comedy by William Shakespeare. They say it is tough to classify because it is both tragedy and comedy. That’s how our shoot here in Rome went. It started out great. Two days of perfect weather, a great team: Rick Steves, Sean T O’Sallaigh, Emily Frakes, our driver, Ensio and myself. Annamaria and the staff at Hotel Aberdeen backed us up.
As I say, everything went great. We got the whole program shot and were ready to celebrate Tuesday evening. While labeling video tapes, I knocked the tape holding day one at Hadrian’s Villa into the trash can. Before I discovered the error, the maid swept through the room, emptied the garbage and took it outside. Then, the Roman garbage truck decided to come on time. In two hours, my precious video tape was in the Roman dump and compacted!
After much scrambling, Rick and I returned with Enzio to Hadrian’s Villa and re-recorded day one in a rapid two hours. Rick is on a plane to Istanbul. Emily is headed back to Chicago. Sean is back in Dublin. I’m waiting for my flight home tomorrow.
All’s Well That Ends Well…
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