We decided to escape London for a work trip as guests of the 15th Rome Film Festival.
As our plane descended the skies over Rome to Ciampino Airport, we could see clearly the magnificent 12th century Selce Tower that reaches skyward towards the Appian Way, the ancient Roman highway that the Roman poet Statius once described as the Queen of Roads.
Most airport journeys are soulless affairs. Not the journey from Ciampino with its Roman ruins and aqueducts glimpsed along