How to Celebrate a Great Fish Market? Pasta with Sardines!
A recipe for pasta with sardines, sarde, one of our favourite Sicilian dishes. Plus encouragement and instructions in fish-gutting!
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We Celebrate Liberation Day in Rome!
A brief history of Liberation Day in Italy (the end of WWII in Europe), along with some of the ways people celebrate it.
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Easter Mass at the Vatican: We Check Out the Pope!
Thanks to some friends, we spent our Easter Sunday attending mass at the Vatican, presided over by Pope Francis!
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Happy Birthday, Rome – 2775 Years Young!
To celebrate Rome's birthday, we share our picks for the best sites to get a sense of daily life in ancient rome
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Erudite Graffiti: the Popes Leave their Mark on Rome
We take a quick look at the presence of the popes in Rome, specifically their habit of putting their names on everything!
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The Pastas of Rome: Four Simple, Classic Dishes
Trigger warning: these four pastas of Rome are likely to cause serious drooling - please cover your screen before you proceed!
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Chucking It 901: A New Way to Think about Money and Travel
We continue our Chucking It series, focusing on the fundamentals of financial planning for travel, from both ends (income and expense).
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Why You Should Go to the Movies Abroad
We give you permission to see movies abroad. Even, or especially if you have been immersing yourself in a new culture.
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Spring Foods of Rome: A Salute to the Veggies!
We dish on the spring foods of Rome, taking advantage of every last bit of green vegetable we can get our teeth into!
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Things We Miss After One Year on the Road
We look back on one year of travel, focusing here on the things we miss most from our previous life. There aren't that many...
