The food is of course wonderful ? we can't eat enough bpasta/b? and the spirit of la dolce vita (the good life) abounds. Whenever we do such a quest in Rome we do regular gelato stops (try the yummy pine nut flavor) or coffee breaks b..../b Rome offers a wealth of bhotels/b from upscale joints to inexpensive pensioni (a guesthouse or boarding house). The cheaper bhotels/b tend to be clustered around the Termini train station, which isn't particularly picturesque but does offer easy ...