März 18, 2014 Live from the road

Rome

Reported by Tom McGuire

Welcome to Italy! Once more the Peace Run arives in Rome, the Eternal City.
What better place to start as at the "Il Vittoriano" Monument, the shrine of the country celebrating the unification of Italy.

Our first school today: the "Don Rinaldi" primary school.

What a crowd!

This was our biggest school of the day, and the children were very sweet

Joining hands to hold the torch

The Peace Run stickers were very popular

Comparing stamps

We had a lot of fun...

Let the running begin!

Thanks for being our first Italian school visited this year....we had a great time...

....and hope you did too

Here in the centre of Rome, there is a big reserve full of historic sites. Sometimes it seems like you are in the countryside...

Running along an ancient Roman aqueduct. It transported water from nearby fountains to the city centre two thousand years ago

Next we were invited to the primary school "Caterina di Santa Rosa"

Being welcomed by the nuns in charge

Hi-fives all round

One of the teachers got caught 'cheating' during the nationality guessing game...she had to run a lap with the torch as punishment, much to the delight of the children

Everybody holds their own peace torch

Finding a quiet place inside the heart

Stamping time!

This was a really fit bunch of kids....they love to run!

The kids were trying to teach Josef how to count in Italian. He never managed to go further than 4...

Thank you so much, Santa Teresa school!

Relaxing and having lunch near the Via Appia Antica, one of the most ancient roads in Rome

These are still the original stones - 2000 years old...

Stopping to say "Hi" to some French students. It was good to have a French runner on the team. Mena did her best...

Lastly, we paid a visit to a small and very charming Montessori school: "Nerina Noè"

The parrots were watching...

...the school is located almost in the wood. No surprise that the Run around the school turned out to be almost a cross-country experience...

Thank you for the great meeting!

A trip to Italy would not be complete without "gelato"...

A shot of the city from an ancient rooftop garden

In the afternoon the team explored some more relics dating back millenia, in the city from which the Roman Empire once ruled a quarter of the known world: most of Europe and beyond....

With a bit more time to spare, we checked out the Colosseum...

Josef in gladiator mode

...and then Vatican City, which is actually a tiny sovereign country inside Rome containing the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church

Inside St. Peter's Cathedral at the Vatican

The basilica was built to impress - and it does!

Rome is truly amazing and we had a superb experience. Thanks to all the schools and everybody who helped us out!

Torch carried by
Dipavajan Renner (Austria), Irena Majerová (Czech Republic), Marc Schrader (Germany), Mena Seguy (France), Nayaja Perugini (Italy), Nivedak Corradini (Italy), Stefano Cenni (Italy), Stefano Lanzalone (Italy), Thomas Strohn (Germany), Tom McGuire (New Zealand), Vladimir Salnikov (Moldova).  
Photographers
Dipavajan Renner, Vladimir Salnikov

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