Rome¶
So, I’m back. Back from my trip to Roma. Actually I came back already last Sunday, but it took a couple of days until I finally found some time to setup this post.
When we left last Friday it started snowing. I love snow. It was a kind of hard to leave quite early in the morning without a chance of enjoying the snow at all. But: Hey! I was coming back anyway.
Norwegian flew the whole distance and I start more and more considering it as an very good alternative to Ryan Air. Less noise, less stress and a thing called “service”. Yeah, it’s a bit pricier as well, but one rule applies for all: You get what you pay for.
On the first evening we (A friend of me, our host and I) joined a Jazz-concert a bit outside the city-center at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. It sounded like a Mix between Klezmer and Jazz. Quite OK, but I think we’ve been a bit too tired that evening. So we gladly fell asleep in the area of Bologna. Considering that we’ve been to the Kolosseum before that concert, there have already been a lot of things happening that day.
Our ambiguous plan has been to be to the Colosseum again very early in the morning - but we just skipped that part. We have been to tired and slept therefore too long. After having a nice breakfast we came to the Colosseum quite late and it has been full of tourists. It also looked less impressive in daylight than the evening before. Almost not worth taking a picture (since there are already so many out there). But with the ticket for the Foro Romanum and Circo Maximo you could also bypass the queue to the Colosseum and get right in there. Therefore we went there later.
That way the day passed by (we also bought seven kilograms of cheese which we needed to carry around), visited a couple of other places (like the Pantheon and in the evening we had a lovely dinner at Mo’sto after bir and fud announced that they’ve rejected out reservation. I have to say that I’ve been really impressed by the pasta and the dessert at Mo’sto though the portions have been small. But the quality was excellent. Really. I’m still dreaming of the chocolate I had for dessert. But when this day has been over I’ve been happy as well - because I’ve been so tired.
On the way back I’ve spent all my time in the plane being in a state between sleeping and being awake, reading a book and trying not falling out of the seat. Gladly I visited my sofa again in the afternoon after coming home and went to bed with an ice-cream, some Italian chocolate and cheese.
If you’ve ever got the chance of getting to Rome, go there. I knew a lot of the stuff from my Latin lessons in school, but it’s a kind of total different story, when you see how big actually these buildings are and how many of them. This city must have been one of the most impressive one’s of it’s time. Today it’s mostly ruins (which is a kind of sad), but still you get an idea how it could have been there. But be prepared for a lot of walking. You don’t see much of the city from the subway, so you walk a lot and this you can feel still two days after you’ve returned home.
