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A great Rome-themed prize in our January competition!
19th January 2017
Rome – the City of Eternal Love… a city to wander in and to treasure. Our competition this month features as its prize two books (one a memoir, the other a novel) set in Rome, a Rome city guide, and a beautiful greetings card.
First up is Judith Works’ memoir Coins In The Fountain. Through wit, wry humour, and enticing descriptions of food and travel adventures, Judith takes us on a journey into the heart of what it is really like to live in the eternal city. A great read.
Next is Mark Lamprell’s novel The Lovers’ Guide to Rome. This is a really good story that has the TripFiction remit written all over it. There is a hand drawn map at the beginning highlighting starred features of the city, as the characters dip and dive through the myriad of lanes and piazze.
Then there is a copy of Marco Polo’s Guide to Rome. To our mind the Marco Polo series includes some of the best guides there are – each with a special section on ‘Insider Tips’. An essential for any visitor.
And finally a beautiful greetings card featuring a picture of the Colosseum.
To win all four prizes all you have to do is write in the Comments box below the one place in Rome that you would most like to visit. It really is that easy! The competition closes at midnight UK time on Monday 30th January – and the winner will be the first name out of the hat on Tuesday 31st.
Good luck!
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Congratulations to Annie Thomas! Hers was the first name out of the hat when we drew the winner earlier today…
Extremely well done, Annie.
I would love to visit the Coliseum and see capers blossoming on its stones.
One place I’d love to visit is Villa Medici.
I would like to visit the Vatikan.
The Trevi Fountain, have only seen pictures of it
I would love to visit Trevi Fountain
I am always happy to go back to Rome. Each time I’ve gone I have not had time to see the Villa Borghese, so I’d love to go there.
I would love to see the catacombs, hidden below the streets but such an interesting and historical part of the city. they would (and do) make a great setting for mysteries and thrillers too.
We visited Rome many years ago and I would love to go back and relax at an outdoor cafe across the street from the coliseum where we had lunch one day. My idea of heaven! Good luck everyone!
Though, I’ve been to Rome (many years ago), I somehow missed the Sistine Chapel.
My favorite place in Rome would be the Vatican.
I would love to visit Vatican City.
The Vatican
The Sistine Chapel. I was there with my family in the 1960s, and I was only 5 or 6 so way too young to appreciate it. Time to go back with a more mature eye, I think!
The Vatican – we didn’t manage to visit when we were in Rome a few years ago.
I want to walk on the Aventine Hill (the Aventino)
Colosseum and Trevi fountain
I want to see the Sistine Chapel as it was closed when I visited Rome.
The catacombs. I didn’t get a chance to see them on my last trip to Rome.
Would love to go back. Was there for a few days one bitterly cold but blue-skied February. The massive ice-creams, the rich thick hot chocolates, oranges on the trees outside the shops, the walk through the Forum, the tour of the Colosseum, the SPQR symbols come across unexpectedly on pathways, the ceiling in the Pantheon, the strange thrill of putting your hand inside the Bocca della Verita even though you know nothing will happen, watching the little man fish coins out of the Trevi Fountain into his carrier bag and head off … Absolutely loved it!
The amazing building of the Pantheon
The one place in Rome that I’d really like to visit is the Trevi Fountain.
Tivoli Gardens
The one place in Rome I’d most like to visit…an authentic italian restaurant with outdoor seating where I can lounge for hours over wonderful food. Buon appetito!
The Colosseum