Tag: Rome
A Family Travel Guide to Rome
Where did we stay? We stayed in the Monti district, on the Via Merulana. Honestly, I didn’t know much about the place ahead of booking our Airbnb and chose it mostly because it was close to Termini – the major railway station, where we would be arriving from Venice and so I wanted to get…
Living List Tick – Visit Rome: Part 2
This is the Piazza del Popolo (the “People’s Square”) and it was at this moment when Rome and I finally ‘clicked’. I am high up on a balcony at the edge of the Villa Borghese. We’d had a fairly disappointing time until that point, but after a refreshing morning in the Villa’s gardens I was starting to…
Living List Tick: Visit Rome: Part 1
I admit to feeling a slight… ambivalence… as to what laid in store for us in Rome. It’s been on my Living List since studying the Judio-Claudian emperors in ancient history and watching old movies a child, all those ‘sandal and toga’ epics, full of fighting and chariot races. And, of course, I wanted to eat the…
