First news from Rome

Day 2 in the eternal city, dying from the heat here, and trying to compensate eating many gelati . I arrived on Tuesday evening late at the small airport from Rome, of course the plane was late and the luggage took forever to arrive, luckily I had Mark waiting for me there, as he had arrived earlier in the afternoon, and bring me “home”. It is in a very nice area, in a very nice building, and has 4 bedrooms and many Italians living in it (between the people living here, the boyfriends and the friends, it’s a bit tough to get who is who). Not speaking Italian, and them not speaking English makes it a bit difficult, but we just manage with the universal sign language . So far I did all the italian cliché things: had pizza and pasta on the first day as well as ice-cream, and a walk to the Colosseo, which is only 15mn walk from were I live. And of course a siesta in the afternoon. Except being very hot and full of tourists and mosquitoes (hard to believe that so far I got bitten worse than during Monsoon in India), so far I’m having a great time. I’m trying very hard not to get run over by a car at every crossing as I have the bad tendency of trusting the people to stop to let me pass. I know I know, after India I should know better than that, but somehow old habits die hard ;) Tomorrow is my first day at work, I guess it will be rather short and just an introduction of the work place and some paperwork to fill out. For the moment I still very much feel like a misplaced tourist here, knowing that I have the whole summer to see everything, and at the same time just wanting to see it all, the older the rocks the nicer to me . Here are some of the pictures we took in the first two day, mainly the Colosseo and churches and others on the way to the Colosseo.