Well, In hind-sight, going to the Capital of Catholicism during Easter, which is like Christmas, New Years and next year’s Christmas combined for us non-believers was probably not the best idea. People were everywhere, and to make things worse, things would close at every odd hour to conduct service or whatever.

But weather was a lot better than various weather services had promised. a nice 17-22°C, somewhat cloudy and hazy at times, but generally nice and spring-like. Rome in the summer can be excrutiatingly hot, so being Scandinavian and all, we couldn’t be happier.

On the plus side, Rome on Easter Day is actually a very pleasant. There was hardly any traffic, and since everything is closed, all the tourists stay out of the way too. We had a nice stroll down Via Appia Antica. Of course the catacombs were closed like everything else, but the hike was a nice one, and we concluded the day with a visit at one of the old Roman Baths, those of Caracalla

You would not believe how big those ruins are, when walking inside. At the time of their construction around 100 AD, I guess we were still having trouble keeping our clay huts standing.

A quick snapshot of the new Amsterdam inspired part of Copenhagen we’re moving to this summer

And some mood shots as well

Alternative use of the pontons :o)

Tomorrow it’s off to Rome. Looks like poor weather and Yesterday a 6.4-magnitude earthquake shattered some town about 60 miles NE of Caput Mundi… according to the news tremors were noticable in Rome .. of course pickings are slim these days, so journalists are making news out of practically nothing – I mean I’m sure the situation in L’Aquilla is deperate – but compared to Kobe and the one in Iran a few years back this one is small potatoes.

Regarding weather, it appears the seven (on average) days of precipitation in Rome in April appear to coincide nicely with our visit.  Of course no two weather services seem to agree on how much water we’ll get from above with weather.com being the most pessimistic and Sweden’s meterological something-something being the most positive: Go Sweden!!

Btw. we’re moving into this on June 1st. I don’t care much for the Flash-homepage thingy, but the apartment is pretty cool, twice the size of our present living quaters and has 69 square meters of roof terrace (is that English?!). And yes – it’s for us alone! I took some photos the other day for you to see here. Unfortunately the first couple of images are from the “demo apartment” – It’d have been nice to have the roof terrace furnished. Anyway, we’re thinking barbeque at our place all Summer :o)