What’s a “calessino”?

The Piaggio commercial states:“…the folding top and the four seats make the Calessino ideal for a leisurely drive, perhaps with a picnic hamper in the back”.

Yes, why not? All the tours we can offer you by bike, by scooter or on foot can be much more relaxing with a driver and a calessino at your disposal, don’t you agree?

Have a look at this video : this is not in Rome of course, you will film the ride in Rome, ok? 

Your Friend in Rome always prefers to meet you directly at your Rome’s accommodation, especially on first day of tours. But sometimes this is not possible…Maybe you are staying very far away from the starting point of the tour or we meet in the afternoon and you’ll plan to be around the centre already. Or simply you wish to find your way in town and meet us in front of the main sites.
In those occasions, we prefer to give you here exact information on where to meet for the two main attractions which are often crowded in high season, i.e. the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum.
For the Vatican Museums we always recommend the tickets pre-booking, therefore you’ll be entitled to get in from a preferential access, just along Viale Vaticano and easily identified with a special brown sign.

We will be there!

For the Colosseum and Roman Forum, there is a pleasant “visitor centre” along Via dei Fori Imperiali. If you walk there from Piazza Venezia you will find this “Tourist Information Point” to your left, otherwise if you reach the area by metro from the B line station “Colosseo”, you’ll find this spot to your right giving your back to the Colosseum. Here some useful images which can help you:

The entrance from closer:

To help you identify ourselves, we will show a sign reading “A Friend in Rome” with our logo.

See you soon in Rome!

“ROME is a city made for the summer. The sun shines, the classical, medieval and Baroque settings are sublime and the balmy evenings offer a long, languorous round of warm cobbled streets, candlelit trattorias and fountain-splashed piazzas“… this is how an interesting article by Tim Jepson starts…and we totally agree!
Many visitors are worried about the heat but it’s just a matter of good planning and scheduling activities smartly.
Wake up early and explore the city (emptied by most of the Romans who prefer to leave) in the cool hours of dawn: galleries, churches, museums and ruins will be flooded  by a magical light. After a fresh light lunch, relax in your air-conditioned hotel, in a park, on the beach, or next to a nice pool and “resist the temptation to sightsee in the heat of the day“. At night you will discover a city full of events, terraced restaurants, open-air concerts…you can enjoy the breeze of the night during a scooter tour, have a romantic walk with your sweetheart or simply enjoy the bars under the stars with your friends and find more!

And, as Tim Jepson rightly underlines, “don’t be tempted to tackle too much: a single visit, even one that lasts all of a long Roman summer, is not enough to do justice to a city with an eternal past“.

Nightlife along the Tiber during summertime…