This is the postcard where I just dump stuff. The parts, and places, that didn’t quite get the time – or warrant the attention of their own, individual postcard. The disappearance of Cacio e Pepe from the average restaurant/tourist menu was rather disappointing. Travellers clearly no longer see the want or the value in plain pasta, cheese and ground pepper. You’re as, if not more likely to get foreign beer in the restaurants and trattorias near the main sites. I still absolutely adore eating a sweet, sugary cornetto for my breakfast – it’s why I’ve smuggled some back with my shampoo. What ever connotations and historical wrongs that may be associated with the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument – it is still, day or night, one
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My mate Rob and I have one of those relationships. You know the sort. Where he is polite, informative and friendly – and I just take the piss. When I said I was going to Rome, Rob was the first to offer an itinerary of places to go – or at least, places to drink. There was no doubt part of him that assumed I would go to his preferred bars and snub nose him, electronically, via the medium of a tweet. But isn’t it great when a view and hype is totally justified? When a recommendation totally justifies the apprehension it might have been presented with? Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fa’ is one of the best pubs/bars I have ever been to. Birrifico