The Observer, 27th April 2003Veni (for 3 days), Vidi (the lot), Vici (child boredom)Tim Moore "... our challenge remained a stiff one: to take in the Eternal City in the blink of an eye, distilling 2,500 years into two and a half days. The logistical prerequisite was flexible accommodation in a central location, a bill fitted admirably by the Palazzo al Velabro, a former monastery straddling the very spot where Romulus and Remus's uncle set a tempting precedent by dumping the kids on a foster wolf. Well up the style police's Most Wanted list, our three-roomed apartment featured Austin Powers headboard electrics and a heavily chromed kitchenette concealed behind dark wooden panels stretching from floor to distant ceiling..." "...Though Rome's excitable traffic is never going to be inaudible, from our balcony it was at least invisible. The walled and fountained monastery gardens sat in the foreground of a view which rolled back over pantiles, columns and ancient bridges to a fortified Roman hillside in the course of typically languid restoration..." You can read the complete article on the Observer website. |
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