Holiday Goddess

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By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Budget Travel, Destinations, London, New York, Paris, Rome

Some of Rome’s best picnic ingredients are at Salumeria Roscioli.

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Destinations, Rome

Download  the Roma Chill album – Free Exclusively for readers of The Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide, our editors  have created a relaxing music podcast to …

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Destinations, Italy, Rome

If it’s your first trip to Rome then start with the simple-but-fabulous stuff. Like The Spanish Steps. Via Condotti, in front of the steps, has …

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Destinations, Rome

Rebecca Sparrow retraces Audrey’s steps in the classic film Roman Holiday.

By Rebecca Sparrow
Categories Italy, Rome

There’s something strangely intimate about time spent losing oneself in a European city off season; life is quieter and feels more ‘real’ – as if the shallow but enticing layers of bright glitter, crowds, chatter and noise have been stripped away to reveal something more real, weighty and lasting. A young Italian filmmaker I met compared Rome’s contrasting seasons to the difference between falling unexpectedly in love with a serious contender as opposed to a light-hearted fun, summer fling. A metaphor only an Italian (or French) man could come up with.

By Alex Billington
Categories Italy, Rome

Clare Press explores Italy’s favourite national pastime on a Roman Holiday. The last time a bloke wolf-whistled at me in Sydney I told him in …

By Clare Press
Categories Italy, Rome

Globetrotting journalist Rachael Oakes-Ash shares everything she’s ever discovered about upgrades (ha!) jet lag, giving back to the locals – and hanging onto receipts… The …

By Rachael Oakes-Ash
Categories Rome, Travel Tips and Secrets, Western Australia