Hard as it was, I left Rome yesterday and am home in lovely Toronto.
I made my coffee extra strong this morning and pretended it was a heavenly cappuccino from Venti 10 where I spent my mornings for the last week.
So how was it you ask? Heavenly. Just perfect.
I walked, ate well, drank wine, laughed, shopped, hitched rides on scooters with friendly Italians, saw everything I wanted to see, and yes friends, I wrote quite a lot. It is a lot easier to imagine dialogue in a different language when you are in the country you are writing about, so I think Portia’s scenes here have benefited from my immersion.
Rome is a beautiful city, and I can’t wait to go back, but Florence remains my favorite city in the world, and I maintain, 10 years after first walking her cobbled streets, if I get to pick the place where I will spend my last days on this earth, it will be Florence.
That is all friends, catching up on your blogs later tonight to see what I missed in the last week!
used to live in rome when i was a kid. rediscovered it a few years ago, walking around the old city. eating and drinking. glad you had a perfect week there.
Lucky! And thanks, it was awesome!
Rome and Florence are great, but I have always wanted to see Venice. The canals, the gondolas, the mystery, what’s not to love?
Ahhhh coffee in Rome. Hello.
Sounds amazing the time you had there! Toronto’s aite too 😉
Thanks so much for stopping by my neck of the woods! I love seeing new faces 😀
Have an awesome weekend, the weather is amazing!!
I agree – Firenze, Florence or whatever else you might want to call it, is also my favourite. A city steeped in history, laden with atmosphere, the birthplace of the Renaissance, with it’s beautiful ochre buildings – I could stroll it’s streets and alleys forever. And I don’t even like cities.