Rome is one of our favourite cities in Europe, and we have visited many times over the years. We just keep coming back. The food, the history, the gelato, the way every street seems to have another two-thousand-year-old building hiding around the corner. Two days is tight, but it’s enough to see the highlights if […]
The Best Gelato in Rome: 14 Gelaterias We’ve Actually Tried
If you’re heading to Rome, one thing you have to do is try gelato. Strictly speaking, gelato differs from ice cream in a few key ways. It has less fat, less air, and is served warmer, which makes it denser and more intensely flavoured than standard ice cream. It also melts faster, which on a […]
3 Day Rome Itinerary: A First-Timer’s Plan (With Map)
Three days in Rome is the right amount. One day and you see the highlights and nothing else, two days means sprinting, and four starts to drag for most people. I first came to Rome in 1995, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been back since. Three days is the length I […]
Touring Rome with Context Travel: Popes, Power, and Parties
Despite them being highly recommended by friends, I’d never taken a walking tour with Context Travel. Until, that is, our recent trip to Italy, where as well as having a wedding ceremony in Venice, we also took a number of walking tours with them, in Venice, Rome, and Florence. Context is a fairly specialist walking […]
Walking tours in Rome: How to See The Highlights of Rome
Rome. The Eternal City. A place so stuffed with history that they’ve had to layer it, like a cake, sandwiched atop itself. Everywhere you look, history piles upon history, from thousands of years ago to the present day, all jostling for space in the city, and time on your itinerary. It’s one of our favorite […]
Face off: five European cities duel to the death
I was going to write a nice post about my five favourite cities in Europe, but then I figured that wasn’t quite as exciting as putting them to the test in a knockout and seeing which came up trumps. Naturally, this will be an entirely objective post, based solely on fact. Each round will […]
Top 11 Things to Do in Rome
We’ve been lucky enough to visit Rome numerous times, and every time we visit we find more things to do in the eternal city. We’ve already written detailed itineraries for visiting Rome, including how to spend 3 days in Rome, 2 days in Rome and even just a day in Rome. In this post though, […]