First days in Rome and Bologna

Ciao a tutti!

Well the football has sucked radically, but I've had a very nice first week here in Rome, aswell as my three days in Bologna, although I was sck the first day there.

I arrived last tuesday and got settled. I live right next to the Stazione Trastevere, which is fanastic as all transportation is next to: bus - and tram stop is right outside my door. It takes me 5 minutes by tram, then I'm in the centre of the centre!! It takes me like 20-30 minutes to walk so I can't be more satisfied. I'm renting a room in an apartment which belongs to Fernando. He is a very nice guy (although he's a romanista (roma fan) ) and the first day he helped sort out my first concerns - where's the super market, getting an italian phone number and so on.

The next day was the Derby della Capitale, where Lazio meets their ugly rivals: roma. I don't want to comment on the match, but I had a nice day with good friends. It's a tradition that many Laziali (Lazio fans) from around Europe come to this match when it is played via the website Laziofever (soon to become LazioLand). This time was no exceptation - although we were a small bunch this time - and people came from Sweden, Finland, Germany, Norway and Luxembourg. All this is arranged by a man named Paolo - thanks again for setting all this up.  I hanged out with them all day and despite the Derby defeat we had a good day with good food and laughes.

The next couple of days I used to explore my neighbourhood - Trastevere. This is a very beautiful part of Rome. The ancient Romans actually didn't use this part of the city during the start of the Roman Empire, so a big part of Trastevere is Medieval. It makes this area pretty unique and very nice to be. Not that many ancient ruins, but the cobblestone, narrow streets are very charming. Also, apparently the first Roman Christian Church lies here: Santa Maria in Trastevere which I went into one day. Very beautiful.

On Saturday I travelled to Bologna to follow Lazio's match there. As I wrote earlier I got sick the first day, which sucked as I planned to use that day to go sightseeing in the city. I did that Monday morning instead. Another defeat, ¤"&//¤%>&¤"/"¤#, but a on a positive note I met the players by pure accident with my friend Dani. He lives in Milano now for a year, and is also a Laziale and lives usually in Denmark. Suddenly we saw the team bus and we decided to check it out. Well, then we met the team, staff and outside the hotel also the president. We're not that fund of the president, he's a real shitface, so we didn't want to talk to him. Anyway, we met some of the players and took pictures with a few of them. Luckily for them that we didn't meet them after the match because we would've given them a whole lot of shit after that performance.

But hey, not every time you meet your favourite team in sandal's in their hotel.

Yesterday I went sightseeing in Bologna, which is a really beautiful city. A very interesting story combined with some beautiful sights. Too bad I didn't have enough time to go inside some of the churches and explore.

The train home went much better, and I got to see what beautiful landscape this country offers. And it's only January!!

Now I'm back in Rome, going to meet up with some friends the next couple of days, and I havn't even got to the centre yet!!

Forza Lazio

Round three

Hello,

I don't know what happened, but I'm not allowed to use my old blog "Aleksandars rejseblog" as I used my hotmail adresse for that one.. So now I have to start all over again with my gmail. Bitches..

Anyway, here I'm off again, after 7 months at home I'm now travelling a couple of months to Rome to follow my football team Lazio. Can't wait. Leavíng tomorrow morning. My first match will be against the rivals from riomma this wednesday. Woaw.

Stay tuned.

Forza Lazio!