Day at the Museum: 5 Days in Rome - Part 5

by Alex in Europe, Italy

If you ask me, no trip to Rome is complete without two things. Fresh pasta, and a visit to the Vatican City. So, having made fresh pasta (and eaten plenty more in the city), we spent our last day in Rome at the Musei Vaticani.

This was a huge day for me - I've been fascinated with the Vatican City and wanted to visit it for basically as long as I can remember. I love visiting the holy sites of different religions, and the Vatican is probably the holiest site for over a billion people worldwide. On top of that, the little independent nation inside Rome is also home to some of the world's largest and rarest art and artefact collections - and as a pair of history nerds, the chance to see even a tiny fraction of that collection was too good for us to pass up.

Top Ten Photos of Rome

by Tasha in Europe, Italy, Photos

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Cooking in Rome: 5 Days in Rome - Part 4

by Alex in Europe, Italy

If there's one thing I knew about Rome before coming, it was this: Rome is a mecca for foodies. And, for the most part, this has proven true - we've had so much excellent pasta and pizza while we've been here. Too much pizza, in fact - and yes, such a thing is actually possible!

As a chef, though, I wanted to do more than just eat. Finding a cooking class is easy, finding a class that works with locally sourced ingredients and uses traditional cooking methods is far more challenging. Luckily we stumbled upon Convivio.

They are a small family run business (just Australian expat Sally and her Italian husband Guido), and they run private (or very small group) hands-on cooking classes, rather than just demonstration, and best of all they do all this from their olive grove-adjacent home in the medieval city of Toffia just outside of Rome.