Watching the Tourists: I

Tourist Ballet, Piazza Venezia   If you're visiting Rome in the high season, the tourists can be irritating.  They clog the sidewalks an...

John Cheever: Encounter with Rome

In October 1956, the writer John Cheever (the "Chekhov of the [NYC] suburbs") and his pregnant wife Mary left the Westchester, CT ...

Riding a Scooter in Rome

OK.  You've succumbed to temptation and rented a scooter, despite never having ridden one.  You've got your pretty wife on the back,...