The Open Door Bookshop has been a Roman institution for 40 years for good reason. The small shop is one of the best places to find used English language books in Rome. And it is not only English language texts – the Open Door Bookshop has a selection of books in French and Italian as […]
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A charming local book store along Trastevere’s cobbled lanes.
One of the key pieces of advice I give people who are just moving to Rome is “carry a book.” You never know when you will be paralyzed in an impossibly slow, bureaucratic queue, or when you will be stuck waiting 45 minutes for the bus that is supposed to pass by every 10 minutes. Books […]
The best way to learn Italian is not going to work for me. Yes, I live in Italy. Yes, I met my boyfriend in Rome. And yes, we both speak English and enjoy eggs for breakfast. I would still love to improve my Italian, so I was thrilled to find dual language books with Italian […]