Note of Thanks for your Support over the Pandemic period

Sally and Guido

Guido and Sally have been running Convivio Rome (offering Culinary Holidays, Italian Cooking Classes, Olive Tours and Winery Tours) from their family home in the Sabine Hills, in the Rome countryside for over 18 years. We have enjoyed every minute of it, and continue to enjoy showing our guests around our beautiful area and giving them a personal and genuine experience that we hope will give them fond memories for years to come.

Running our own business and working together as a husband and wife team, is like dancing: taking one step at a time and in harmony with each other.  Working in tourism in a non-touristy area has always presented it's challenges, but none more than in 2020 and 2021 (and even into the beginning of 2022) when the Pandemic hit.  International boarders were closed and almost all of our in-person bookings were cancelled. 

Initially, we thought, like everyone else, that the restrictions would not last for long, a month or so, and then everything would return 'to normal'. When we realised that this was something more long term (and again we had no idea of how long it would be) we saw that the family business that we had built for years needed to change, and quickly. We needed  to earn some money 'to put food on the table' and petrol in the car (when they let us out). 

As Italy closed down, we knew that we needed to take our in-person business, online. 

Taking our business online - Guido's Cook Club Monthly membership

And this is the point of this post, that Guido and Sally wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who supported us during this time. We received a lot of support, from past clients and guests who also became friends, from family in Australia and England, from distant friends, and from people whom we had never met before, who just wanted to help out. 

People from all over the world joined us on Facebook Live and Zoom and supported our online Business: our online cooking classes, monthly cook club membership, online cooking video packages, our cooking workshops, team building classes and more. Guests also returned to Italy to join us in person, as soon as it was possible. Again, we just want to send you our appreciation for all your support over past years, through the years of the Pandemic, and your continued to support us today. 

Grazie mille. Thank you all.

Sally and Guido

Convivio Rome - Italy

For more recipes: Guido's FREE recipe e-booklet '5 Minute Pasta'

Convivio Rome Italian Cooking Holidays

One Day Italian Cooking Classes

Half Day Rome Olive Tours

Half Day Rome Winery and Wine Tasting Tours

Virtual Italian Cooking Parties

Online Cooking Classes with Chef Guido

Corporate Virtual Cooking Events