Current time: Wednesday, May 28, 12:10AM.
Amount of sleep since Sunday: approximately 4 hours – At least it’s dark out now!
Through the airport, onto the plane, into the sky. 10 hours of daylight, with an arrival time of 10:30am in Frankfurt. Thanks to the digital flight tracking, I confirmed that we did indeed trace the sun across the arctic, so until tonight, we experienced at least 24 straight hours of daylight. Slightly confusing, especially paired with a short stop at the apartment to drop our bags and head out to the Celian Hill for our first brief tour of the study.
San Stefano Rotundo was the first visit. Though I should start by describing the drive from the airport. We experienced our first Italian traffic. Fun! We also experienced the landscape from ground-level, vs. our familiar Google Earth view (and everything seems so much closer this way). Not only is everything so much closer, it is all much larger. The Gazzometro skeletons in Ostiense, the Colloseo, the dome of St. Peter’s. It’s all right there, and it’s big.. San Stefano Rotundo. Huge. We arrived 2 minutes to closing, but Rus asked politely and we were granted an extra 3 mins. Then hit another church, then the Caeliemontana park, the Arc of Dolabella, San Giovanni e Paolo, and the Clivus Scaura before taking a look at the Colloseo from atop one of the hills.
It hasn’t hit me yet. I’m in Roma. I know I’m in Roma. It’s hot and humid and hectic and italian, but I’m not quite here yet. Perhaps sleep will help, but there’s much reviewing to do before meeting il gruppo at the arc of Titus before grabbing a monthly metro pass at 8am for a full day of walking a good portion of ancient Roma (Palazzo Popolo to the Jewish Ghetto, and everything in-between)
It should be good. It will be good.
Heyguesswhat I’m in Italia!
- rbo
(Originally published June 12: I apologise for the lack of updates. Internet was either completely unavailable, or there was no time between sleeping and working to go out and find it. But here I am, 3am on our last night in Roma, sitting on the stoop of a closed store a block away from the apartment.. fully packed for the drive to Dolciano up in Tuscany in the morning, but not at all ready to leave…)
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I am glad that you arrived and are walking in the path of history and mystery. Take lots of pictures and eat good food and remember to throw your pennies in the Trevi Fountain to guarantee a return to Rome.
Blessings my young warrior
Jeremy
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