I love Rome

I love Rome.

I love Rome because it is full of short people who like to eat good food and talk with their hands.
I love Rome because is a place where a bottle of good wine costs less than 5 dollars and waiters are offended if you don't eat at least 2 courses. It is a place where nuns dance in parks and old men sell flowers....

I love Rome bcause you can wear blue shoes and green pants and carry an orange bag and wear a pink tie....and nobody cares.

Rome invites you to make a nice dinner just for you...and to eat it overlooking an obelisk as the sun sets. Rome is confirmation that humans can be eternal and eternally silly.Rome gives you the permission to have delusions of grandeur and the grandeur of delusions. You can also just sit and have a coffee and watch the children play in the street...everybody else does!

I love Rome because Rome is crowded and confusing and noisy and beautiful.... I love Rome because Rome is old and has been around the block. In fact, I think Rome invented the block.

Rome has 7 hills and 13 aqueducts and a wall with 14 gates.
Rome has 3 million people and 2 million cats. Rome has children and nonnas and gardens and
fig trees and flowers and trafic and grafiti and garbage.

Rome has 1 big, beating heart.

I love Rome.