Susan has brought me to Rome for a short break. We’ve been together for a number of years now but this is the first real holiday we’ve had together without other family members of one kind or another tagging along. We’ve both been looking forward to this trip for a long time.

Rome is just as beautiful and messy and romantic and smelly and impossibly crowded as I imagined. I’m finding even the shitty bits rather charming, probably because I’m a little drunk and totally loved up.