Rome vs Pleasure Island
This summer marked a personal watershed as I packed up my home in London and moved back to Rome. It’s a homecoming that has been more than a year in the making, and increasingly resembles one of my family’s favourite movies, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, a cult animation from the 1970s. Comparing my progress to the plot of the movie, I am currently at a standstill in the middle of task number eight, where Asterix and Obelix are stuck