Don't know about the penthouse . . . the boss is looking into nunneries and monasteries and such but, given the prices, we might be under a bridge (like Ft. Lauderdale).
Are the pickpockets really that bad? I keep my wallet in a pocket and a hand in the pocket . . . ever since I had stuff lifted from a cute leather pouchy thing in Casablanca a hundred years ago.
How about a closable shoulder bag with 7x19 wire run through the straps? Cut that, you bastards!
My wife found a great "warning" article about how restaurants will cheat you . . and I guess I'd better learn a few Italian, Croat, Polish, Hungarian words . . . if Rome is anything like post-EC London, nobody speaks the native language.
We might do an apartment and eat street food . . . be a change from the road-kill venison and raccoon we gat around here.