Anne's Place | News Archive

Birthdays, anniversaries, honeymooners, the young and the old - spend time in Italy, in Rome, at Anne's Place. Be cared for, be pampered, be a part of our house, our hospitality. Enjoy the tranquillity, the fresh air, the real Italy. You will love it ! Better still, if you would like to marry in Italy - we have the experience of setting it all up !!

20 August 2007 - A lot can happen in a month. Anne's Place has a new permanent driver, handyman, cook, bottlewasher as the webmaster has given up the full time paid employment to help with the B&B. To those that understand, David has left work and is now at home full time. We are going to extend the tours to incorporate an fully accompanied tour of the Castelli Romani - Take a look at the details on the Tours and Trips page

26 July 2007 - Unfortunately our belief in the honesty of visitors has been shattered this last week, with three cancellations at very short notice. We have amended the cancellation policy.

23 Jul 2007 - We've upgraded the Internet access and the wireless capability - and it's all FREE !

19 Jul 2007 -The Vatican City State today opened a new Internet portal http://www.vaticanstate.va/EN/homepage.jsp in order to meet the needs of the ever increasing numbers of pilgrims and tourists in the Vatican, and to respond to the continuous requests for information reaching the various offices of Vatican State though the traditional channels. A communique made public yesterday afternoon explains that the new website, which will run alongside the official Holy See website has been implemented in five languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish and German) with Portuguese soon to be added. Through its five sections (State and Government, Services, Other Institutions, Monuments and Shop) the portal "presents the State's bodies, the key monuments with descriptions and images, and useful time schedules for the public" reads the English-language communique.

18 June 2007 - Getting the train out to Anne's Place is quite simple. Just follow the advice given here . We have also updated the timetable here . There is no longer the 00.10 train.

18 June 2007 - We do very early morning airport transfers, so you can stay your last night with us, and we'll take you to the airport (unfortunately you'll miss breakfast !) Look at our Airports link for prices and distances.

13 June 2007 - Many visitors to Anne's Place in the last couple of years would not have met Peds, our black and white cat. He'd become a bit of a recluse in these last years, preferring the safety of our kitchen to the outdoors. He died yesterday and we miss him a lot

7 June 2007 - Antonio, our builder, tells us that the authorisation for the pool is imminent. Now you have to consider that imminent has a different meaning in Italy, in that the application may have reached the top of the pile, but there will still be a bit of shuffling as previously unknown forces may just remove some of the applications further down, which may get priority. Can't help but love them though (the Italians, that is !)

31 May 2007 - We are having the kitchen modified right now so that you can make yourself a cup of tea or coffee at any time of the day (or night - just don't make too much noise !). We will also extend the bar system to give a greater choice of beers, wines and soft drinks.

6 May 2007 - For information - the last reliable train to Zagarolo leaves Rome at 22:20. We are always there to meet this train

5 May 2007 - We run a shuttle to the local restaurants, they call us when you have finished, and we bring you home. No fuss, no worries, and you can imbibe the local wine without having to worry about how to getting home

24 April 2007 - Learn to cook, in true Italian style, in Nonna's Kitchen. You can decide what it is you'd like to cook, or leave it to the chef. You help source the victuals, prepare everything, cook and eat. Wine is included. Ask for details.

22 April 2007 - For those of you who have been to Papa's, we learned today that his wife has died. Our sincere condolences to the whole family.

19 March 2007 - We have a laundry service available for guests at very reasonable rates

14 March 2007 - Spring has come (although the local paper says that we will have a cold snap at the weekend.) Papa told us yesterday he had planted out all of his vegetables, but being 80, he wouldn't take any advice about covering them this weekend. They will be part of the wonderful menu at Papa's (the Baficchio) this summer.

26 Feb 2007 A whole month has gone by, with no news ? In that month the weather has been good, so good that the almond tree has blossomed, and now all of the Irises are out, and it's almost as if spring has arrived.

22 Jan 2007 You might think we are paranoid about the showers, but, following a couple of comments, we have, finally, had the showers replaced. Look at the pictures.

11 Jan 2007 Another 1st for Anne's Place - Chris proposed to Sam on the terrace and she accepted. We wish you both every happiness for your future life together.

4 Jan 2007 The other showers have arrived, now all will be replaced with hydro massage units - might have to upgrade the water system ?

2 Jan 2007 A very happy new year to all, and a special thanks to all who have written to wish us continued success. To those who have stayed, and posted something on tripadvisor, thank you. To all the others that have stayed, you'll still be welcomed back! 2007 promises to be a good year.

11 Dec 2006 I have added a new page of links you might like to look at for information on Rome and thereabouts.

30 Nov 2006 Duster dies. Finally, after the diabetes, the blindness, Cushing's syndrome, the peritonitis, his heart finally gave up. We'll miss him.

27 Nov 2006 The first of the showers have arrived, and will be installed this week. The rest we have to wait for. Having ordered them from Leroy Merlin, it appears that their entire shipment of these particular showers ended up in Spain instead of Italy. They are now promised for January.

17 Nov 2006 Rome hit a record for visitors this October (over 3.3 million passengers came through the two airports).

2 Nov 2006 Telecom Italia is a law unto itself, both our telephone and ADSL lines have been "poorly" for quite some time now. But they seem to have fixed it. But it'll be an Italian fix, might work, might not.

31 Oct 06 We have received planning permission for the swimming pool, which will be installed for the summer of 2007. The trouble is you won't want to go into Rome ??

30 Oct 06 Someone who has never even made contact with us posted a negative comment on tripadvisor. Fortunately TA has had to commonsense to remove it.

24 Oct 06 We listen to our guests and have ordered new hydro massage shower cubicles for all rooms. We expect to have them finished by mid November.