The fashion, the sun, the food, the romance.
Italys cultural heritage to the world: Michelangelo, Fiorucci,
Fellini.
The eternal city of Rome - breakfast in the sun in la Piazza Navona,
la passeggiata on the Via Condotti, and lovers around the Trevi
Fountain at night.
Enjoying a light but sumptuous lunch of bread, olives and local
wine under the awning of a sidewalk cafe.
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...and Teddy came too!
Tots enjoy their gelati by
the Trevi Fountain.
But apart from the Disney Shop round the corner on Via del Corso,
that's probably all they'll enjoy. In fact they probably won't
even enjoy that much, as the merchandise in the Rome branch
of the Disney shop is more geared towards clothing and less towards
toys and souvenirs than the British and Stateside outlets.
Unless you're actually moving here to live, we frankly don't recommend
you bring small children with you to Rome. Recreational amenities
for kids are abysmal here as Italian children are instead brought
up to enjoy eating and frolicking in the bosom of their family
as their main source of entertainment, neither of which things
British children are particulary good at.
Thus, unless you have something specific planned, the typical
British or American child may well be bored out of his skull here
after only a couple of days. Public playgrounds generally harbour
dangerous, poorly serviced equipment and public parks are often
wild, barren places littered with used syringes left by drug addicts.
The countryside immediately surrounding Rome is dull, parched
and scrubby and mostly fenced off into private estates patrolled
by semi-wild sheep-dogs, so there are few green fields to run,
roam and picnic in. You'll have to drive a couple of hundred miles
north to Tuscany for that; Yet even Tuscany, in spite of it's
fashionable Arcadian attractions for adults, can seem a strangely
alien and barren place to children, with its sparse rolling hills
and regimental rows of vineyards, olivegroves and cypress trees
generating a landscape of a substantially larger and less cosy
scale than the winding green lanes and bluebell woods of Kent
or Surrey. They don't have fairies here either.
The ice-cream's good though...
Here at Romebuddy, we've tried to stir into the mix all the kind
of special information for lovers and visitors to Italy that only
someone who actually lives here could know.
We want to help make your visit a special one.
By the way, can you cook Italian?
If not, click here.
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THE SOUVENIRS |
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THE ARCHITECTURE |
DOLCE VITA |
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THE MARKETS |
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