Observer, 27 April 2003
Veni
(for 3 days), Vidi (the lot), Vici (child boredom)
Tim Moore's family weekend in Rome goes surprisingly smoothly thanks
to an inspired tour guide and liberal helpings of pizza and ice cream
 In a world of SATS and league tables, incurring the wrath of school authorities has never been easier: spilling Pernod on the Homework Agreement, falling noisily asleep on literacy action night and, most heinous of all, sneaking our kids away for a modest mid-term break...
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Yet our challenge remained a stiff one: to take in the Eternal City in the blink of an eye, distilling 2,500 years into two and a half days. The logistical prerequisite was flexible accommodation in a central location, a bill fitted admirably by the Palazzo al Velabro, a former monastery straddling the very spot where Romulus and Remus's uncle set a tempting precedent by dumping the kids on a foster wolf. Well up the style police's Most Wanted list, our three-roomed apartment featured Austin Powers headboard electrics and a heavily chromed kitchenette concealed behind dark wooden panels stretching from floor to distant ceiling.
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