Prima Roma

Off to the slightly warmer Italy, with its great coffee, pizza and pasta! Next to the ancient aquaducts and collesseum, the city offers a fine bouldering gym.

Hidden behind a parc, we are welcomed in boulder gym Rock It. Nice entrance and changing rooms with multiple showers and hair blowers (even here). Looking good!

The bouldering area is split into two parts. One is rather small, where falling down does not guarantee not touching a climber from the other side. The second part is wide and good fun. The levels are hard to predict: some colors are graded, however, one yellow was a warming up to me, another really challenging. Some colors were not graded by a number, soms colors were hard to distinguish from other close colors. After a little search and talking with some locals, there was enough to climb! Lucky to have met nice locals who also provided some bouldering tips. Great plus! 

A large training area, which would not have been necessairy to use; the next day we ended up sightseeing most highlights of Rome. By foot. What a beautiful city! With its impressive cathedrals, vibrant city parcs and presence of old-Roman landmarks, like aquaducts and a colossal colosseum. A welcome few degrees celsius warmer than in The Nederlands (or Iceland): a nice place to visit again!

The Bouldertour Europe 2017 is on! Visiting in France, Iceland and Italy in three weeks. Not bad at all :-)