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Romantic corners, enchanting gardens of Rome

June 12, 2015 By travellingoven 2 Comments

I still remember the first time I visited Rome like it was yesterday. Exactly 10 years ago. It was few months after I met my than-boyfriend, now-husband and he was Italian from Rome. I never ever thought I will be one day married to an Italian and the funny thing is that just a short time before we met I attended a beginners course of Italian language with my best friend and one of the first sentences we had to learn was “Il mio fidanzato e di Roma” (“My fiancé is from Rome”) and we had one of those crazy moments when you start laughing in class and you just can’t stop yourself, while tears streaming down your face and mascara smudges makes you look like a panda bear! Don’t you just love those!? Who says those moments are reserved only for teens! 🙂


Anyway, it was my first time in Rome and besides being terrified of meeting my future mother and father in law and not speaking a word of Italian (besides that “Il mio fidanzato e di Roma” and naming the pizza and pasta dishes ingredients which didn’t make for the best conversation ever!), the thing I remember the most were rivers of tourists in the city center and Vatican and the hot, boy it was hot! I was melting faster than my gelato but than again maybe I was a tiny bit over excited for all the firsts. First time meeting his family, first time travelling together, first time in Italy, first attempts to speak Italian…

Obviously everything went well if we don’t count that unintentionally I insulted his whole family by saying something that I thought was a compliment and actually was a swear/insult/bad word – you get the picture!!! 😀
Since than I’ve been in Rome many, many times and always love it, always discover something new about the city and always find its energy and atmosphere to be so entertaining, charming and exciting. Since we’ve been there last weekend, I’m sharing some of the romantic corners we visited that are out of the standard tourist routs and involve an old post building from 15th century that is renovated and operates as amazing restaurant and little family hotel (Il postiglione) as well as the old castle (Castello della Castelluccia) that was built between the 10th and 13th centuries by the noble Cancellieri family, descendants of the Orsinis, on the ruins of an ancient Roman villa and today is gorgeous luxury hotel.
So enjoy the walk through those old corridors and enchanting gardens…

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  1. Miriam says

    June 12, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Such a beautiful blog post, Lili!! Thank you so much for sharing your memories, with all these amazing images I literally got goosebumps all over 🙂 Gorgeous! <3
    (Those gardens and lavender… Speechless.. )

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    • travellingoven says

      June 12, 2015 at 11:49 am

      That is soooooo sweet Miriam, thank you!!!! Your comment just made my day, I’m so happy you like the photos! I get so excited when I see a place so beautiful, I just run around with my camera and forget about everything else, my heart bursting with joy! 🙂

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