I love Italy: its history, its elegance, its food…

It holds such beautiful memories for me – and I’ve been lucky enough to visit a handful of times in my life.

It’s perhaps a little surprisingly then, at the age of 42, I’d never been to this amazing country’s capital Rome. 

And given it was only a whistle-stop tour of the city – that has in its way shaped all of our lives – I was initially a little hesitant to be critical of it.

I was there as part of a family holiday – a cruise…