When I signed up for this job, I had very few certainties. One of them was that I’d have to forget all about having a weekly routine.

I am ashamed to say that Rome was never on my to-see list. Ashamed, because Rome is simply magnificent.

To travel is to learn and to realise just how much you know nothing. Stay curious. Avoid indifference and apathy as if they were a disease.

I remember the weeks leading up to the 9th of August felt like a race. A race against time.