Rome is overrun with tourist nearly all year long and summer is particularly dreadful, so sometimes you just need to escape the crowds and enjoy the beauty of Rome from above. When I just can’t take the throngs of tourists any longer I ascend to these little rooftop havens š
Like London and its seemingly infinite number of pubs, Rome is chalk full of gelaterias. Countless really. And I’m sure there are at least 50 establishments people claim asĀ the best gelateria in Rome.Ā I won’t pretend to know, with certainty, the absolute best gelateria in Rome, but the following two are ones I always return to.
After doing a quick stop in Rome this week, Ā I thought it was about time I wrote about Rome as a whole.Ā As a first-timer to Rome you have an obscene amount to see and do and though it may seem daunting you really ought to give it your best.Ā It is a vibrant city with amazing architecture, intriguing history, warm colours, decadent cuisine, and a bustling night life.
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Yup, this restaurant gets its own post. It is not an exaggeration or overstatement when I say that Enoteca Cul de Sac is my favourite restaurant in the world (thus far). I have specifically made trips to RomeĀ just to eat lunch and dinner here and then carry on with my travels. I have dreams about this place. Whenever I am in Rome, I eat here every day and the people I drag with me do not mind in the slightest. Over the past eight years I have probably sent over 40 people to this restaurant, and every single one reports back that they absolutely loved it and also went multiple times over their stay in Rome.
There are so many amazing little towns to explore throughout Tuscany and deciding which one is no easy task – we landedĀ on San Gimignano largely because ofĀ our time constraints (we only had the weekend). And well, it’s pretty darn picturesque. However, it is an itty bitty town so there aren’t loads of things to do within the city walls so we ventured out to a local winery and we were not disappointed!
After a day in Rome all to myself, I headed to the Termini and hopped on a train to FlorenceĀ to meet a close mate from our grad school days in London. Both having studied abroad in Italy during our undergrads, we’d done our fair shares of meandering from northern to southern Italy. I hadn’t been to FlorenceĀ since 2008 so was quite excited to have a refresher. Here’s what I’ve gotten up to in Florence over the years…
whistle+wander 