I am completely exhausted. Yesterday I had a relatively quiet day and planned to go on an Archeobus tour to the catacombes, but they ended up being closed so me and a Brazilian girl calle Renata went on a Roma Christiana tour which was a bit boring actually, and then split off and I went to the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme museum which was really cool and I saw the Diskobolos statue that I studied in Greek Art and Architcture in classics as East (the Roman copy, no...

I want to move to Rome. I see the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine and the Roman Forum and Trajan's Forum every single day just in passing and it never gets boring. Plus, the cheese here is really nice. Yesterday I went a-wandering down to the Piazza Della Reppublica and caught an open top bus around the city which was great, and it had an english audio tour that told you exactly what you were seeing as you drove by. I hopped off at the Ara Pacis which was ...

Today was huge. I almost missed my plane because I thought I'd set my alarm for 6am but I hadn't, so I woke up at 7am when we were supposed to be out the door. I got dressed and packed up half my stuff in twenty five minutes and got to the airport only like, quarter of an hour before we boarded. DRAMA. But never mind, I made it in the end and Rome is amazing! Amedeo's nephew Andrea met me at the airport and drove me to my hostel, which is really nice and 100% cl...

Skiing was fabulous. We went to a mountain village and skifield called Bardonnecchia which, because it was Friday and so people were working or at school, was basically empty. You would ski down and maybe see thirty people maximum as you went. There were two chairlifts on our part of the field - the lower one was a four person one, and the upper one sat two people. I was skiing with Amedeo and the boys from the top chair, but then we got to the bottom of that cha...

After the party I slept until noon, and didn't get dressed all day. It was a public holiday to mark the immaculate conception (apparently Mery's gestation period was only two weeks, so there's more than miracle going on!), so the boys were off school and Amedeo didn't have work. Instead, we all just mooched around the house being blobby. Today, Meredith and I set out bright and early for Stupenigi, a big pretty building thing (maybe a church again?) which is abo...