WALKING HOME AT TWELVE O´CLOCK P.M.

I took the bicycle down to the Metro. However, when I thought about returning home there was a strike and I had to walk back.

For several years they have been constructing a Metro station by Colosseum. Work began in 2013 and might finish in 2024, though this is doubtful. Metro line C cuts straight through the very heart of Rome. The ground is unstable and insecure, filled with remains of ancient structures. They work day and night. Below me tunnels were dug through ancient Roman military barracks - more than thirty rooms decorated with wall frescoes and mosaic floors. 

The town was quiet and almost empty.

Giorgio Castriota, called Skanderbeg, born 1405 in Kruja, Alabania, died in Lezha 1468. 

The pyramid of Rome, built 18 -12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, priest and head of one of ancient Rome´s four religious congregations, Septemviri EpulonumThat is all we know about him.

Stazione Ostiense, underpasses.

Eataly

Someone lives here the entire year. He puts flowerpots in front of his trailer. I wonder who he is. Someday I will ask him.

The marketplace in Garbatella.

House entrances are lit all night.

Ponte Settimia Spizzichino

My bicycle was still standing by the Metro station.

Almost home.

BLOG LIST

Books are quietly resting in my bookshelves, year after year. When I look at them I wonder where and why I bought them, one day I will read them. When I few a weeks ago, travelled to Prague I brought with me One, a novel by David Karp, without any other thought than "now it may be the right...
I mina bokhyllor står böcker stillatigande år ut och år in. När jag ser dem undrar jag när jag köpte dem, alltmedan jag tänker att en dag skall jag läsa dem. När jag för några veckor sedan reste till Prag tog jag, utan någon annan tanke än att ”nu kan det vara dags”, fram David Karps...
With good reason it happens quite often that my generally chic and fashion conscious wife complains about the way I dress, as well as my general appearance. Just before we are going out together she tends to give me an apologetic glance and point out that I am dressed like a hobo and that my hair...
Med goda skäl händer det allt som oftast att min eleganta och modemedvetna hustru klagar på mitt sätt att klä mig och på mitt utseende. Precis innan vi skall gå ut tillsammans ger hon mig ofta en beklagande blick och påpekar att jag är klädd som en luffare, att håret står åt alla håll ”som hos den...
Sometime during the third century AD the North African Terentianus Maurus wrote four books about “letters, syllables and metrics”. Most of the content of these books are probably forgotten by now, aside from the quote habent sua fata libelli, "books have their destiny". Actually Maurus...
Någon gång på tvåhundratalet skrev Terentianus Maurus fyra böcker Om bokstäver, stavelser och versmått. Det mesta från de där böckerna är väl numera bortglömt, bortsett från citatet habent sua fata libelli, ”böcker har sina öden”. Egentligen skrev Maurus inte det, utan pro captu...
When I a few days ago indolently watched TV I ended with a rather insane science fiction movie called Pandorum. It was about how 60,000 people in 2174 had been induced to hyper sleep and sent off on a 123-year-long trip to a planet called Tanis, reckoned to be similar to Earth. Every...
När jag för någon dag sedan slötittade på TV fick jag se en tämligen vansinnig Science Fiction film kallad Pandorum. Den handlade om hur 60 000 människor år 2174 hade blivit försänkta i hypersleep och sänts iväg på en 123 års lång resa till en Tellusliknande planet vid namn...
Today two years have passed since I started writing my blog. It was my sister Annika, who suggested I start blogging and while rain poured outside the train window on my way to the school I was working in, one hour´s ride to the north, I rewrote an article refused by the local press. That is now...
Idag är det två år sedan jag började skriva min blogg. Det var min syster Annika som föreslog att jag skulle börja blogga och med ösregn utanför tågfönstret på väg till skolan jag arbetade på i Växjö skrev jag om en artikel jag fått refuserad av både Sydsvenskan och Norra Skåne. Det...
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