Last Sunday, the 18th, we went to the Flea Market. It's held every Sunday a couple miles south of us. We ate lunch and hopped on a bus and went.. The bus took us pretty close, we just had to walk a couple blocks and cross a bridge, which is better than the hour walk it would have been from our apartment! They had everything here. Shirts, shoes, jewelry, leather, food, electronics, and massive amounts of people. We decided to walk down one side and come back on the other.. We arrived and the market was only open for a couple more hours so we went to work. There were a lot of cool things we saw. Italian leather shoes and belts and clothing. Lots of leather wallets and jewelry. We made it down half of the one side before it was noonish and people began packing up. The market was close to two miles long with tables on both sides, and we only saw a quarter of it.. There was a lot of the same stuff just new people selling it. I only made two big purchases on the day, something for Deven and something for Tonya. All I can say is I showed up with Euros and left broke..
On the way back we took the 280 bus north and got lost.. We thought it would turn and cross the river at some point, but it kept on going north on the far side of the river and crossed over way too far from home.. We rode it all the way to a north bus terminal station and waited until it turned around and rode it back home to a stop close by St. Peters Square. It only cost us about an hour of our time and we got a little bus tour of the city north of the Vatican. I also got to see the sports complex where Rome plays its' soccer games. I've got to go there on a field trip soon.
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