We couldn’t quite comprehend what it might mean to brave the streets of Rome with our brood of four children in tow. But reader, we tried it.
by my parents as a child. We stayed in a hotel overlooking the Piazza della Minerva, where a statue of an elephant shouldering an obelisk was a whimsical wink among all of Bernini’s muscular river gods in Piazza Navona nearby. The Pantheon was also around the corner, and I remember shuffling around its cool marble interior as my father explained the architecture and shaft of light descended from the oculus above.
In subsequent years, after grad school and after kids, my husband and I went back to Italy often. But escaping the Fiumicino airport car rental with our wits and children intact seemed like enough of a challenge after a red eye. We couldn’t quite comprehend what it might mean to brave the streets of Rome with our brood of four in tow.
I should preface this by saying that my kids are essentially as thrilled by the waffle iron in a highway Hilton breakfast bar as they are by the amenities of a 238-room, five-star hotel, but even they seemed a little awed by the marble colonnade out front. When we entered the Art Deco arches of the lobby, the middle one shuffled closer to me. “Is this, first class?” he whispered under the looming Murano chandelier.
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