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It’s funny how politics gets muddled with travel. We’re recently learned that the new conservative party now in control of Rome has proposed a 500-hectare (1,250-acre) theme park on the outskirts of Rome while doing away with the extremely popular cultural legacy of progressive Walter Veltroni. Why? Unlike the young, single tourists that events such as White Night attracted to Rome, (deputy mayor Mauro) Cutrufo said he wanted to attract more families to visit, to reverse a slight drop in visitor numbers, “because families contain more people”.

Ah, money speaks, but through your children! “Ma, can I have that Caesar bobblehead? Please?! Pretty Please? I’ll clean my room! I neeeeeeed that!”

Anyway, your kids can get a more realistic view of Roman life if the Colosseum is built of fiberglass and the gladiators blood is really marinara sauce. Saves the kids the trouble of imagining things. You can’t be a politician (or journalist) today if you have an imagination, now, can you?

Rome Apartment in the Historic Center

So go soon, while there’s still culture and nightlife to speak of. Maybe you’d be interested in renting the apartment, er, the Roma holiday get away shown on the left. This place even comes with covered parking. Now, you might say “great!” but think very closely about the alluring possibility of nosing your rental car into a small piece of pavement between the curb and a big tree at a very odd angle and wondering if the constabulary find it amusing that you, a mere tourist, can park like a real Roman so they forego the usual writing up of the ticket and move on shaking their heads and snickering…

If you’re really into getting with the culture, you’ll head over to Testaccio, where they’ve dug night clubs out of a big hill made up of amphora sherds. Dance the night away while thumbing your nose at the new administration in Rome and looking up at a ceiling made up of 2000 year old broken wine jars. That’s the ticket.

And just think, Testaccio is where the old meat processing went on. Folks learned to make tasty things outta stuff that hanged rather low off the hog. Offal is the thing they do best. You know, innards.

Enjoy.