Guri Sogn Andersen

Second day in Rome

Monday, January 9th, 2012
Leisure, Photography, Travels
Good food, Guri and Lars is crazy, Peroni, Piazza San Pietro
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Our second day in Rome is a Monday. Sleeping a while, and a later breakfast than usual. This is the whole point with this trip. Take it easy, but still discover the eternal city. After all, the city is eternal, and I guess it will still be around for the next ten days.

Today we have had cappuccino, some foccachia/pannini thing for lunch, and chestnuts and beer for second lunch. Guri and I were crazy, and enjoyed a Peroni beer each in the Piazza San Pietro. We had dinner in a restaurant that gave a poor first impression. Luckily, the food totally outclassed our expectations. Even the service was good, in a nice and clumsy Italian way (as compared to the Norwegian stiff service style). A nice day.

~ Lars

Piazza San Pietro

Monday, January 9th, 2012
Leisure, Photography, Travels
Piazza San Pietro, St Peters square
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: Enjoying Berninis work

: Saints

: Great photoshoot

We spent the daylight hours walking to the St Peters Square and relaxing in the sun. A lot of impressions and enjoying Berninis work (read about him here if you want) resulted in a heap-load of pictures… I won’t be boring you with too many – google will give you plenty that are better than mine if you are interested – and I bet Lars will post some too ;-)

Had to include the one showing of the saints in an arch… During Johannes Paulus II (or Karol Wojtyla) more people were given status as saints than during the 17 popes that went before him – IN ALL! Now, there’s one guy that knew his PR…!

~ Guri

Night Stroll

Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Leisure, Photography, Travels
Fiat, night stroll, Piazza di Spagna
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: The Spanish Steps

: View from the Spanish Steps

: Looking towards St Peter, Sp. steps

: Night stroll in tha hood

: This is gonna be our ride

: This is gonna be our crib

: Quite happy

That does it, we’re gonna stay… ;-) We’re gonna drive around in a little yellow fiat and drink a lot of wine in our scruffy castle! Wanna come?

A rough start to falling in love

Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Leisure, Photography, Travels
La Dolce Vita, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna, via Cola di Rienzo
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Well, I choose to look at it this way. We are improving… Dead tired, uncaffeinated, scruffy and smelly we managed to get to the gate just in time for the final call… gahh.

Now, we are settled in a nice contemporary hotel close to the heart of the ancient city Rome.

After a good two hour sleep we had pizza and beer at a pizzeria in the neighborhood. Pictures from Fellinis La Dolce Vita hanging on maroon brick walls and tables covered by those red and white cloths we all know from the movies may be cheap tricks to set the mood… I don’t know and I don’t care – It works and I just love it

Finally, we felt fit to explore the first chunks of the eternal city. We took a night stroll towards the Piazza del Popolo, headed down the Via del Babuino to Piazza di Spagna, before stopping by the mausoleum of emperor Augustus and heading home to the Twentyone Hotel at via Cola di Rienzo. I’m pretty sure I could do the same stroll every single of the ten remaining days we’re going to spend here and still get excited.