Many of the buildings in Rome have an orange or pink hue to them, which looks so beautiful in the bright sunshine. I have never been able to capture this on film, owing of course to my lack of photography skills. The buildings are almost luminescent in the sunshine, and are especially beautiful in the late…

I love a good market, and Rome certainly has several excellent ones that never disappoint. One of the many benefits to renting an apartment instead of staying in a hotel is that we can actually purchase food from these markets instead of just staring longingly at all the food. We have made daily morning visits…

  I realize a manhole cover is not exactly picturesque, but these Roman ones are one of the first things we ever noticed on our first trip to Rome several years ago; I’m still impressed by them. The SPQR is stamped on all of the manhole covers in the city, and it is Latin for “Senatus Populusque Romanus”, translated to…

We left Paris for Rome on June 2.