In between visits

(More pictures coming tomorrow, saturday)

After my Mom and Sister left I was thinking I was very lucky concerning the weather. Despite one of my first days in Rome I hadn't witnessed rain. During the days my mom and sister was here the weather was beautiful once again, only one night did it rain. Ever since they left it has rained. Every single day.

I had some very nice days with my mom (Mama) and sister (Kati) when they came to visit me in Rome from 18.-22. February. I also had the impression they had a good time. We went to all the must-see sights in the center of the city although we didn't make it to St. Peter's Church because of a huge queue. Another place there was a large queue was to the entrance for the Forum Romanum - the old political ground during the Roman Empire. We did decide however that we wanted to see this. After staying in line for around 30 mins. we finally got our tickets and went towards the scanner, where we scanned our tickets. Me and Mama went through and when we looked back we saw Kati standing on the other side of the entrance without a ticket. She just looked and said 'the wind took it'. Typical. The ticket was lying on the bottom of Forum Romanum. So she went back and got a new ticket. Kindda unnecesary as the lady at the scanner saw that Kati had a ticket. As retarded as she could be she just looked at my sister and said nothing. Service? None. Anyway, we had a god time, and for the first time we found our way to the top of the Palatine Hill, which is the place the city was born according to legends 2800 years ago.

We heard this funny anecdote from a tour guide, here at the Palatine Hill I remember now I mention the age of the city. We bumped into this toursit group and we listened to all the history about his ancient place. The tour guide said: "I had a rather funny experience some years ago with this elder man. I was explaining that the Coloseum was started in 72. He came up to me and said I was lying to the group. He said that he'd been here in '69 and that the Coloseum was there that year." 
For the slow ones: the elder man thought the Coloseum was built in 1972, not 72 AD.

Other then sightseeing in the world's most beautiful city we spent a lot of time eating good food and sitting at cafees, where our favourite spot was infront of the Pantheon. I enjoyed it especially as my dinner usually consisted of pasta with chicken and tomato sauce. I'm not the big dinner maker. So pizza, (good) pasta and beef sorted me good. They also had loads of Danish candy for me they brought from Denmark. Paradise.

Mama and Kati also got the chance to catch up with Mattia, our friend from back when we lived here, who is one of the main reasons I'm a Lazio fan today. Other then a nice dinner together we went to the stadium all together and watched Lazio-Bari. Lazio won 1-0, but the real show happened in Genova where the match Genoa-riomma took place. After 50 minutes riomma was in front 3-0, so the stadium didn't care about that match and enjoyed Lazio, who was playing a very good game. The thing about the Lazio fans: Rule number 1: Hate Roma. Rule number 2: Love Lazio. So during all matches when Lazio and riomma are playing at the same time 85 % on the stadium is listening to the riomma match on radio. So, soon after riomma scored to 3-0 everybody took out the radio. But when the stadium speaker announced that the game in Genova was 2-3 everybody turned on the radio once again.

A HUGE celebration came suddenly. 3-3. In 20 minutes riomma had gone from 3-0 to 3-3. But with their nasty luck I was sure they would win the game anyway. But suddenly it happened. The stadium EXPLODED. 4-3 and everybody was hopping and jumping like Lazio had won the title. The stadium starting singing and dancing. It also had a big impact on the players who after the match talked about it in the press. Amazing stuff.

Before the match we went out on memory lane and visited our old appartment building where we lived in 1996-99. To our big surprise had the 'Ghost House', that always was unnocuppied when we lived there, had been renovated totally. We found out that it now was the embassy of Kazakhstan.  

All in all we had a good time. After Mama and Kati left I havn't been doing much other then writing my application for the Anthropology study at Copenhagen University. All boring stuff that has matched perfectly to the boring weather that has been ever since they returned to Denmark!!! Yes, I was also 24 hours in Cagliari, but as Lazio lost that match there's not much to tell. Nice city though where it was nice to be back at a harbour. Now my friends are coming next week, first Nicolai and Oliver on Monday and later during the week Thomas and Mads will join us. Great stuff!

FORZA LAZIO!!