Alison Telfer has arrived at Sant’ Omobono in the heart of Rome. She reveals what she has been up to in week one…
As I packed my bags for Rome my colleagues at MOLA couldn’t help but come down with a mild case of the green-eyed monster. They had a vision of me holidaying in Rome, a bit like Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 film Roman Holiday…except without the Lambretta. Although I am surrounded by fantastic ice-cream, delicious pizza and gorgeous sunshine there is some serious work to be done. The team I am supervising is going to dig some 5 metres of stratigraphy, most of it waterlogged, in a 2 by 5 metre shaft, in just seven weeks!
