The last year and or so has taken its toll on Rome, turning a usually bustling city into what felt like a ghost town at the height of Italy's covid-19 emergency. Thankfully things are slowly returning to some semblance of normality as the situation continues to improve and the country's covid vaccination campaign steps up a gear.
The city's first tourists are starting to trickle back, and with them the long-lost sight of travellers writing postcards and the sound of suitcase wheels bumping over the sampietrini cobblestones. American tourists are seizing the opportunity to take covid-tested flights along with visitors from the EU keen to avail of a quarantine-free Roman holiday.
