What do you miss most about Rome?
 

I'm heading off to Europe in two weeks. Curious to hear about your experiences. :-D

white pizza.<BR><BR>Get some in the morning at any grocery or pizza place and it comes big or by pieces.<BR>At the grocery you order it like you do bread and that is where you will find it.<BR>White pizza with salt. Yummmmm.<BR>Slice it open and put some mortadella in it and what a great sandwich.

Cantuccini and vino santo, at the end of a meal.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

Oh, dear, Danny, where to start?<BR><BR>The smell of the coffee! Sorry, no caffe in my town or Starbucks can come close to it. If heaven has an aroma, this has to be it!<BR><BR>The church bells I could softly hear every morning, ringing for the Angelus each day. The clomp-clomp-clomp early in the morning (again, lightly & non-obtrusively) of the carriage drivers coming down the street to take their place in Piazza di Spagna. <BR><BR>Being able to view great works of art at every turn, without even trying, just by looking about while outside.<BR><BR>Piazza di Spagna, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Bridge of Angels.....<BR><BR>Smiling friendly faces, greeting you with "buon giorno"....<BR><BR>The list goes on & on......<BR><BR>Buon Viaggio, Danny,<BR>BC

Walking around the cool Pantheon on a hot afternoon, granita di caffe from nearby Tazza D'Oro in hand.

I mostly miss the Gypsies throwing their babies at you and having their kids trying to get into your pockets to steal your money.

Almost everything Danny! It is such an exciting, vibrant city. Thinking of being there makes me smile now while I am typing. <BR><BR>The bustle of the traffic and the Italian pedestrians' defiance of the motor scooters and even the don't walk traffic signals to get where they wish to go. <BR><BR>The quiet coolness when visiting the many beautiful churches.<BR><BR>Seeing something modern and current day, and in the next turn around a corner something built in Roman times.<BR><BR>The wonderful food and wine; the conversations (half in English/half in Italian) with cab drivers and storekeepers; the fantastic art, architecture and history.<BR><BR>We like many European cities, but when we're in Rome we have this wonderful inner joy just because we are there.<BR><BR>j

I miss the beautiful colors of the buildings. The tera cotta, ochers and pastel pink colors. Especially at sunset and early morning hours. I also miss the beautiful fountains in every area of the city. I miss Rome. Enjoy your trip.

The gladiators.

I miss the living outdoors--reading the morning paper over capuccino and cornetto at an outdoor cafe; shopping for fresh fruit and veggies at Campo dei fiori; having lunch outside, even in winter on a sunny day; lingering next to a beautiful fountain on a hot afternoon, listening to music at an outdoor concert; and perhaps most of all, late late dinners on summer nights, outdoors in some lovely small piazza, followed by a leisurely walk to Giolitti's for gelato.

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What I miss most about Rome is Rome itself.

The noise in the streets, the colours of buildings, the Italien people! I am aching for Rome! <BR><BR>Helen

<BR>- the food: the best meals I have had in Europe<BR><BR>- the ruins

The most incrdible fountains...everywhere. The other is the view from the Ponte S. Angelo or Emanuelle and gazing across the Tiber toward St. Peter’s at dusk.

Starting my day with a capuccino and fresh cornetto at a local bar. Or later in the day, popping in for a quick tremazzini (sp?) --- funghi & cheese is my favorite, and si, calda.<BR>

Ice cream after lunch, ice cream after dinner, ice creme late night, esp, the Blue Ice Shop

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