AKN: If you only had one day to spend in Rome, what would you do? More importantly: where would you eat?
AD: We'd have a cappuccino at Sant'Eustachio (Piazza Sant'Eustachio 82) and then we'd sit for a long time in the Campo dei Fiori and watch people. Then I'd go to Sant’ Ivo alla Sapienza, a astounding white church by Borromini. Maybe there'd even be a choir singing in there. Then I'd walk around the Colosseum and back all the way up through Trastevere deep into Monteverde to a restaurant called il Cortile, on via Pisacane. The antipasto table is there is where antipasto goes when it goes to heaven: frittate, seafood, asparagus, these incredible mushrooms. I'd get some pasta, Shauna would order the pollo al diavolo, a smashed and salted chicken half, and we'd nurse our tired feet and eat antipasto forever.
Interested in replicating Doerr's One Day in Rome? Well, here's a map!
You can read my entire interview with Anthony Doerr here .
On a related note...
Over the weekend Matt Gross, the New York Times' Frugal Traveler , blogged about traveling to Venice with children on the cheap: "Frugal Venice, Family Style." He, too, writes about the love Italians have for children. Enjoy!
On a related note...
Over the weekend Matt Gross, the New York Times' Frugal Traveler , blogged about traveling to Venice with children on the cheap: "Frugal Venice, Family Style." He, too, writes about the love Italians have for children. Enjoy!