The ride to work

Usually I take the bus to work, since there is 15 minutes walk to the nearst metrostation and the bus is not so overcrowded. Mostly I take the bus too late. It seems to be impossible for me to arrive at the busstop before 8.20 just in time to miss the bus.

Busses here in Rome, by the way does not have time schedules. If you ask a roman why they almost look insultet at you, and explain that that would be impossible with all the trafic jams. Which always have puzzled me because there are always trafic jams in Rome, it is infact one of the few static things you can count on every morning. So why it is that nobody can calculate a schedule for the bus where the trafic jams are included is beyond me. Anyway the bus seems always to arrive around the same time.

The bus which I take ends almost next to the vatican museum (which is (for those of you without culture), the one of the most visited museums in the world), but luckely no guidebook never wrote number 81 in its lists of buses which goes this way, and are therefore primarly full of people going to work, and not so many scared foreigners, which every morning try to match the impossible street signs with the overview map in their guidebook. Which is almost a shame, because its actually a quite nice trip - I of cause cannot enjoy since I am to busy not looking at all the tourist things so I will look like a native :-).

After getting of, I have a little bit of a walk to work, where I luckily (or sadly because it always makes me a bit more late) have found a nice little bar where they make a great cappuccino and sell warm cornettos. Each morning I try to avoid it, but almost every morning I find myself entering. By now they know me, and says "cappuccino!!" as soon as I enter - Its nice already to have somebody how recognizes me in this new country.

And with a cappuccino and a cornetto in the stomac I feel much more ready to create software in italian