by janecanapini | Apr 25, 2014 | Rome, Tips, Trip Planning
My desire to share travel tips probably started back in 1985 when I was living in Rome, and I couldn’t help but offer advice to people on where to go and what to see in my favourite city. I wanted everyone to see the Rome that I had fallen in love with, and I...
by janecanapini | Feb 4, 2014 | Art, Italy, Personal, Rome
They say you never forget your first love. It certainly applies to me because it was 30 years ago that my love affair with Rome began and the city captured my heart forever. Like its famous moniker, the Eternal City, the flame it sparked in me so long ago still burns...
by janecanapini | Aug 6, 2013 | Attractions, Italy, Rome
In urban North America, when we think of a farmer’s market, we typically think rural, road-side food stands, or the temporary ‘country in the city’ popup markets set up seasonally in urban parking lots adjacent to Starbucks. Not so in Rome. Even in...
by janecanapini | Jul 29, 2013 | Italy, Mediterranean
It’s not really cheating on your husband if you spend your honeymoon with your first love – at least, not when your first love is a town named Positano. Given that even Google agrees that this is one of the most romantic places in Italy, I think I can be...