We began our day with a long sleep-in. On most of our days in Rome the alarm clock sounded very early but not this day. The reason was that our only meeting was at 15.30 instead of 8 or 9 a clock in the morning. At Thursday we arrived back in the civilization after...

On Thursday morning the alarm sounded before 6 am. Still half-asleep, we walked in a crisp weather to the railway station and took a train towards Firenze (Florence). During the one and half hour ride some of us slept, while others tried to wake up. Before 9 am we...

Yet another early morning sun woke us up in lovely Rome. Between Fontana di Trevi and the party office of Popolo di Libertà (Berlusconi's party), we met with the Italian correspondant for Dagens Nyheter Peter Loewe in the fancy Stampa Estera - the journalists press...

Buongiorno! I'll start off with an apology regarding the blog silence. The Wi-Fi we were expecting to have at our apartment didn't start functioning properly until Thursday night (i.e. two days before our day of departure), which is why we're posting several entries...

Monday was our first full day of meetings, and there was an air of anticipation in the group. We were up bright and early for a meeting with Kristina Kappelin, a Swedish journalist based in Italy. We did our best to get the apartment ready and we organised some...

Buongiorno! Our Sunday morning began with the regular "Who's in the shower? It's my turn!"-chaos, and ended with a happy bunch of fresh-feeling students leaving the apartment for a meeting with Ulla Gudmundson at Casa di Santa Brigida. After five minutes of walking in...

Buongiorno! We have arrived in Rome and we have already managed to do several touristy things. The sun was out when our cab drove the first bunch of us into town from the airport, and after finding our apartment (which is right in front of the residence of the most...