Review: Eggs Roma, Trastevere, Rome Eggs Trastevere focusing on one essential ingredient – the humble egg – with unbelievable panache. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, while the name is a giveaway, put aside all your preconceptions before you try this place. Yes, expect a hearty American or English-style breakfast in relaxed, informal surroundings, with fried,…
Things to do when you visit Rome: some fun ideas via Instagram Instagram is one of my favourite social media platforms as a travel blogger. I really enjoy sharing the highlights of my trips and engaging with other amazing Instagrammers from all over the world. Most of the pictures on my feed however aren’t captured…
Everyone knows that Italy has produced some of the best baristas in the world, but what do you do when you have just a few days in Rome and want to be fast-tracked into the city’s cocktail culture? Enter The Roman Guy, two dudes who set up a tour company in Rome to help travellers…
Rome is full of glimpses of history, but for anyone who loves the more recent past, visiting Garbatella is a must. Whilst its architecture represents an almost perfectly preserved slice of the 1920s, a stroll through this magical neighbourhood also conveys what life in modern Rome can be like – a contrast of the quaint…
Garbatella, the Roman neighbourhood south-east of Testaccio, is one of those areas that few tourists find. It’s not far from San Pietro fuori le mure, the great Papal basilica, and it’s the home of Eataly: but these tend to be the only items that make it to the average traveller’s bucketlist. In reality, Garbatella is…
What does a cappuccino really cost around the world? New research shines the spotlight on flats and flat whites everywhere, in an attempt to create a really comparable index of the cost of living Everyone loves making imaginary house purchases, don’t they? Whether you’re a holiday fantasist or a planning a neighbourhood upgrade, it’s always…
Review: Eating Italy Food Tours’ Florence food Tour Florence is the perfect foil when you’re tired of Rome. Where the Eternal City has ancient ruins, Firenze boasts Renaissance art and architecture. While Roman cuisine is entrenched in working-class traditions of make-do and season cheap cuts, Florence – while also boasting an extensive cucina povera –…
Every year, thousands of overseas students head to Rome to spend a semester in the Eternal City, study for a Bachelors, a Masters, or even a PhD. We talk to four students from four very different institutions in the city, about what they think of living in Rome, their tips for other students, and why…
For those of you who follow my blog, you’ll know that one of my passions is the creative arts and supporting artisans and artists everywhere, in the great fight against the death of imagination. Recently I came across Bolzano-born Tessa Moroder, an economist by trade who now lives in Prato in Tuscany and is working…
Looking for autumn activities in Rome? You’ve come to the right place – here’s full list of fall excursions in Rome. With the fall equinox ushering in the autumn, it’s a great time to turn your thoughts to the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ and channel your inner Romantic poet. Keats wrote his famous…
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