{"id":2176,"date":"2016-08-14T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2016-08-21T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:40:31","slug":"deciding-where-to-stay-trastevere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks In Trastevere"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve wanted to stay in Trastevere since my first visit to Rome. We followed my niece through the cobbled streets along\u00a0twisting alleyways,\u00a0listening to the rats dive into the river Tiber, \u00a0until we found the restaurant, da Luce (now Hosteria Luce).<\/p>\n

I’ve since eaten there three times\u00a0and painted one of the\u00a0meals. \u00a0Although bloggers and TripAdvisor all lament that Trastevere is no longer what it once was (and who among us is?), that it has become a tourist-infested, rowdy students, all-night\u00a0party\u00a0zone, I was hoping to find something that would work for me. I looked up Hosteria Luce online, and they’ve tarted the joint up with chandeliers and schmancy cuisine, but maybe\u00a0they still make spaghetti cacio & pepe. Here’s hoping.<\/p>\n

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After prowling various apartment vacation rental sites, and getting\u00a0some interesting feedback on TripAdvisor, I found several promising apartments. I\u00a0\u00a0exchanged emails with a\u00a0Trastevere couple. \u00a0One\u00a0poster warned to stay away from two ‘party’ piazzas and the busy main highway, and with the magic of Google maps I could determine the flat I liked wasn’t\u00a0on those piazzas or near that road.\u00a0After not sleeping in Madrid, I’ve learned to read reviews carefully and do my due diligence.\u00a0I even\u00a0I PM’d one of their last guests (formerly from our neighborhood in Atlanta – small world) who\u00a0assured me noise was not an issue.<\/p>\n

I rolled the dice and booked it for the first two weeks of my trip, when Robert is joining me. I hope\u00a0I have chosen wisely – an apartment not on a square or piazza, tucked away on a pedestrian street, with a small balcony and a fair amount of space. It’s one block and an alley away from Hosteria\u00a0Luce.<\/p>\n

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Trastevere Espresso Finito, oil on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve wanted to stay in Trastevere since my first visit to Rome. We followed my niece through the cobbled streets along\u00a0twisting alleyways,\u00a0listening to the rats dive into the river Tiber, \u00a0until we found the restaurant, da Luce (now Hosteria Luce). I’ve since eaten there three times\u00a0and painted one of the\u00a0meals. \u00a0Although bloggers and TripAdvisor all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[131,121,194,143,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-2176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preparation","8":"category-rome","9":"tag-apartment","10":"tag-preparation","11":"tag-restaurant","12":"tag-trastevere","13":"tag-tripadvisor","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/da-luca-espresso.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OBxc-z6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virginiaparker.net\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}