Rome - a photo essay

Porta Portese market on Sunday morning...






















A sunny afternoon in Villa Borghese...














Wandering around Piazza Navona and Campo di Fiori, and encountering the reason we are in Rome...




















Pampered at the St Regis Le Grand Hotel...
















Wandering around the Pantheon on my own, Monday morning...

Lunch at Maccheroni. Highly recommended are the bucatini all'amatriciana (tomato sauce with fried pancetta or pork cheek, laced with chilli pepper and liberally dusted with grated Pecorino romano cheese) and fried artichokes (which unfortunately had been consumed by the time this pic was taken).

Then pick up some coffee to take home at Tazza d'Oro (Via degli Organi 84) and gelato at Giolitti (Via degli Uffici del Vicario 40) on the way back. Coffee and wine make the best souveniers from Rome, I think. Also brought back two bottles of rosso from the Taurasi region and a bottle of an interestingly named bianco, Est Est Est!. Highly recommended for wine shopping is Enoteca (Via Torino 132/133).

Meeting the girls at the Spanish Steps...

Last day in Rome...

Expresso and casseta at Dagnino (Galleria Esedra, Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando 75). Be eye-filled with a vast array of Sicilian pastries. Nice way to laze away the last day, sitting in the sun-filled atrium.