Susan Spano Her World redux - Postcards from Rome
This is Los Angeles Times Travel writer Susan Spano, on a comeback from the now-defunct “Her World” column and “Postcards From Paris” blog.
You thought you’d seen the last of me, right?
Sorry, but I’ll be checking in here occasionally with reports from my new hometown: Roma, the Eternal City, where Nero fiddled, Keats succumbed to TB and Fellini walked around with his jacket slung over his shoulders. (God, do Italian men ever know how to wear clothes!)
Editor’s note:
What’s your favorite Susan Spano story? Request ones you’d like to see revived online in our Comments section.
I just rented a place on the very threshold of the Forum. Once I get there in the spring, I’ll immediately start studying Italian at the Dante Alighieri Society in the Piazza Firenze and plunge into Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
I’m counting on gaining even more weight than I did in France and really antagonizing all the people who already know everything there is to know about Italy. So stay tuned.
— Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
[Photo: Max Rossi / Reuters]
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February 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK! It’s about time the
Travel Section again offered interesting reading!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
Perhaps you won’t receive this, but I’m sending it all the same…
I really loved your article on Fellini’s Rome: sei veramente brava! It has feeling, sentimento, appreciation, gusto and nostalgia.
I can see you have absorbed Rome’s and Federico’s spirit: l’anima romana!
Where do you live now?
Ciao
~K
May 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Susan,
One of ex-pat friends told me to check out your blog from Rome. Love that you are instantly immersed in what’s Roman and not touristy. There’s so much more to Rome and Italy than the big bus tours.
Will you be taking some day trips out of Rome? there are some amazing, untrampled places within an hour’s drive/train ride from Rome……….Ask me. Friends and I have been digging around, driving around, researching and talking to locals to find them……
ciao,
Cheryl