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Car-free in Rome?

November 4, 2024

Recently the Rome City Council approved the Detailed Traffic Plan “Historic Center”, which identifies 6 environmental islands – Portico d’Ottavia, Navona, Pantheon, Tridente, Trevi-Quirinale and Ansa Barocca (the area right…

Immigration to Italy

September 3, 2024

In the hopes of helping others reduce the stress of updating their Italian Permesso di Soggiorno I’m jotting down an account of what I did today and how it could…

Lockdown Piazza del Popolo

Stepping Out of the Travel Business

May 29, 2022

Living out the pandemic in Rome has given me time to reflect and re-evaluate my weekly routine. Before automatically reintroducing patterns from BC (before covid), I stopped to ask myself if I really missed them. When the answer was no, I made some changes.

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