About

I am Rachel and I write this blog.

I am from London or thereabouts but have lived in Rome for nearly 5 years. I’d fallen out of life in London and so I left….. it was spontaneous, deeply irresponsible and liberating. I never intended to stay in Rome, Italy even, I thought I would travel. Roots however crept downwards, it felt right and so I stayed.

I live with Vincenzo a drummer, my ideal kitchen and table companion, a man whose passion for pasta, olive oil and music I will never really understand but very very happily share. We have just bought a tiny but lovely flat in the very center of this beautiful, chaotic, complicated city, next to a market and above a breadshop.

I never intended to be a teacher but I seem to have fallen into the paid habit of educating very small Italian children in the ways of the English language – which is worrying considering my rather dubious grasp of it……

Amongst other things I like to cook, eat and write so a blog of this sort seemed a good idea. I am rather tall with a penchant for salami, figs, fried eggs and wine way beyond my budget.

My snack of choice is a lump of cheese.