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I tried not to get too distracted by all the amazing type and that around Rome etc, what with it being a family holiday. But I managed to snap a few bits and pieces...
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We hatched two reasons to risk life and hire car yesterday. As well as wanting to catch a glimpse of St Peter's, we wanted to go here for ice cream.
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That's enough. This last one's a bit random — the manufacturer's plaque on a vintage film projector at the door of the film theatre they take you into at the beginning of the tour...only we got lost driving to the factory so missed the intro video.
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Slightly nuts testimonial ad from 1970. I think that dude's some international star of screen or stage.
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Futurist supremo FT Marinetti visited the factory — this is his visitor book entry — and there are signs of the Futurist style in their marketing around the same time.
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Surprisingly, the company was started by the man Biutoni, of the pasta brand, and didn't make chocolate at all. That was pre-war when sugar and cacao was not so easy to get hold of. Once that changed, production shifted.
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Yesterday afternoon we took the factory tour at the Perugina factory where they make Italy's favourite chocolate, Baci. Now owned by Nestlé, they nevertheless take great pride in Perugina's heritage. There's a small but really interesting museum packed wi
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Surprisingly lovely, non-standard souvenir book from the Coliseum and quite reasonably priced. We were just marvelling at the original construction and how on earth it's survived nearly two thousand years.
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Man alive! That was a tiring day. Sore plates of meat. This is as close as we got to San Pietro...we looked at the time and realised if we didn't hoof it back to Roma Termini straight away we'd miss any opportunity to grab food before catching the last tr
