A New Life

Here is our apartment building at 24 Archimede, 00197 Roma.  We are on the 5th floor, top floor.  The large open terrace on the R side of the building is our landlord.  Our terrace is on the front of the bldg. with the overhead ceiling.  Civilization!  We are thrilled to be here.

This is the front gate.  During the day it is open but only when the concierge (portiere) is on duty.

Here are the front steps into the lobby.  The concierge is in the small room on the Left side...so he can watch to be sure he knows who is entering the building.

Here is our concierge:  Fernando.  I think he is from Bangladesh.

Hallway to the elevators.  

Two very small elevators.  However only one of them works.  The second one broke and the homeowners of the building can't decide if they want to fix the elevator or pay the money to make one big elevator.  This was two years ago.  Tom asked our landlord (Francesco and Paula) why they don't just take a vote:  The Francesco looked at Tom like he was crazy.

Our door is the one on the right.  16A.  

Our foyer.  The IKEA rug doesn't really go with the decor!

The next foyer.  The living room is to the left with the Christmas tree, and the room on the right is our bedroom.  Behind the wall to the left is the kitchen.

Any guests that come, this will be your bedroom.  But for now this is our office, and the terrace opens off of this room and the bedroom.

Our bedroom.  Only this one small armoir to hold the clothes.  We bought a small rack to go next to it.  And as I said, my clothes are in the foyer.  We taped up the family pictures to the armoir.  We can access the terrace from this room as well.

The very small, tiny kitchen.  BUT it has a dishwasher!  The stove is just 2 burners, no oven.  Small microwave.  Small sink.  it does the job.  We usually eat on the terrace or in the living room.

The terrace which gets all the morning sunlight

No view but at least it's above the street noise.    It's a nice, bright apartment.

Here is the gate to the park where we walk every morning. It's right around the corner from the apartment.   Okay, it's not the Cinquantinare, but at least there is a park we can walk to.  So nice!  I really hated where we had to walk in Montespacatto...well, there was nowhere to walk there!

Trees, greenery.  I need it!  Love the umbrella pines in Rome.  The park isn't very big but it's plenty for a morning walk full of these beautiful trees.

Gotta get outside everyday.  If I don't I turn grumpy in a hurry...just ask Tom.

Also a small grove of olive trees in the park.  Not every park in the world has these kind of trees.

The building on the left is the entrance to the metro....well at least the train to the A line metro.  Our stop is Euclide.  This is piazza Euclide.  Shops, sidewalks, hotels, restaurants, metro.  The area is called Parioli.  Nice area.  Supposedly a chic area.

 This is the other side of the piazza and the park is on the back side of the church.  Our apartment is literally steps away from this piazza.  Welcome to our new neighborhood.  It feels like a new life.  Both of us are much happier here.  Smart move we should have done much earlier, but at least we did it!  This post will be fun for us to remember where we lived.