Living somewhere is a lot different than visiting. From the very moment we set foot in Rome this time, I felt remarkably different than I had on our previous visit. First, it was no longer entirely novel. There was some element of familiarity now: I knew the basic lay of the land and the...
We arrived in Rome after a high speed train ride from Venice and jumped in a cab at the Termini train station. Twenty minutes later, we pulled up in front of our apartment… the one we’d been looking at on Google maps for months. Yup, the same orange paint, the same green shutters. This...
