| Page Views: 5,053 Last Visit to Rome: July, 2006 | Living in Rome by craic - last update: Jul 14, 2009 |
I crossed the equator for the first time in 2004, and landed in Italy for the first time. Rome knocked me out. It was love at first sight. I wrote a very over-excited page. Which I have now discreetly removed into a travelogue. So I may write a more considered and esoteric page. Having spent more time with the beloved, becoming a little cooler and more measured. Having tried to live with the loved one. I became a little Roman. Seen it all, done it all, not impressed. Over-Excited Gush Anyway, back in 2004, one taste of Rome wasn't enough so I applied for a residency at the Whiting Studio in Rome - and got it. I think you always get what you really want. I had six months, from February to July. This page is about the Rome I saw during those six months. I saw a great deal of my roof garden on the 8th floor on Viale di Trastevere (not the pretty part of Trastevere) and I think the morning glories were the piece de resistance. |
|  | I saw a great deal of my living room. With six months I had time to spread myself a bit. I didn't feel as if I had to run out and do Rome! I read a great deal. (The Whiting Library is in fact a library and to leave the flat you had to walk past over 2000 books. This is not always easy.) I listened to my neighbours fighting through the wall. I watched a lot of (mostly) very bad television. I wrote a bit. I would walk out onto the roof garden and lean out a bit and look at St Peter's Dome. I walk walk back through the kitchen and look at the glint on the white marble of the Vittorio Emmanuele. I would go and lie on my bed and listen to the old lift creaking and groaning. The mechanism housing was right by my front door. As I can lie in my bed in Wingello and listen to the traffic up Bumballa Road, I could lie on my bed in Trastevere and listen to the traffic in the block of flats. Who was that person who always left at 4-30am? Secret lover, tram driver on the early shift, owner of incontinent dog? |
|  | From time to time Rome would call me and I would descend from the 8th floor and go out into it and have a look around. I didn't always like what I saw. Rome didn't always treat me very well. But you know, I would go back there and live there in a minute. I'm not finished with Rome yet. |
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| Pros: | "Rome - well - I don't think you would be able to get to the end of Rome." | | Cons: | "You might spend a lot of time complaining about Rome." | | In A Nutshell: | "Once you have lived there, you might not want to live anywhere else." |
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RoscoeGregg Sun Nov 1, 2009 22:50 UTC You Crack Me Up!! | icunme Tue Aug 25, 2009 09:03 UTC Hi Jen - lots of great new stuff here - but a long time since I visited. Torna Roma? <(•¿•)> | richiecdisc Sun Aug 9, 2009 22:16 UTC I hate when that happens: your team is robbed and only you know about it, not the dancing on the side of the state stuff. That I've done in more drunken days. Much like beer, no need to go for the cheapie ice cream when there's good stuff about. | Manara Wed Jul 22, 2009 21:53 UTC I had enjoyed your older pages, but I like these ones even more! |
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