Rome city guide & tourist information
11th May 2008

September 2007


Let’s talk pesto for a moment.

Despite dire warnings from the BBC last year that the supply was about to dry up, the supermarket shelves are still giving up a bountiful supply of this tasty sauce. However, I’ve never been particularly impressed with the pesto that you can buy in jars. Even Sacla’s range leaves me a little cold, although perhaps that’s because I’ve been eating it regularly for at least a decade (more…)

Well, there it is. Been and gone.

Maximum Silence at Circus Maximus

(I’m prepared to accept that my cameraphone in no longer at the forefront of modern technology.)

This year I finally made it to Notte Bianca, where among other things I saw Maximum Silence (above), an installation of coloured baubles in Circus Maximus (more…)