Europe Vacation part 9

We finally found a travel agent that’s willing to just sell plane tickets and not try to get us onto any tours or any of that. So now we have plane tickets to Amsterdam and then a quick flight to Rome. We leave Hong Kong at 11:30pm and arrive in Rome at 9:30am. That couldn’t be better. I can sleep on the plane and we’ll still have the whole day in Rome. Because of the time difference, we’ll arrive in Rome 10 hours after we leave, even though it’s a 16 hour flight. The flipside to that is even though the return flight is 15 hours, we’ll lose a day. We leave Rome at 5:30pm and arrive in Hong Kong at 2:30pm – the next day. The tickets are $600 more than what I found online last month, but now those tickets are even higher. The prices seem to go up every day.