Trastevere Flea Market Part 1

Dear Everyone,

These are the things one can find at the Trastevere Flea Market, which is open every Sunday of the year. Enjoy!

A pirate's wheel

Antique silverware

Miscellaneous furniture

Records (you can also find DVD & CD stands just like this one)

Piles of clothes for €​ 0.50, 1.00, or 2.00. You will find any Italian woman madly rummaging through these (especially the 0.50 bins!)

Plants

Old coins

Smoking pipes

Jewelry

Antique books

Asian trinkets

Anything you might need to sew something or make clothes

Coffee cups and saucers

Light fixtures

Old comic books

Luggage

African mosaics 

Anything you might ever need for your bathroom

to be continued...

Ciao Y'all!

Via Portuense 471

The Kitchen

The Fridge

The piccolo bathroom

The bedroom

The closet

Living/Dining room

TV

Audrey and the couch

The French doors that open up to the terrace

Casey chillin' on the terrace one night after dinner. 

View from the terrace. Not the greatest ever, but hey- at least we have a bus stop right outside our apartment!

I couldn't finish this post with the previous picture, so I decided to throw in a photo of the dinner the night we took these pictures. Amatricana- its one of Rome's signature dishes made with tomatoes, chilis, onion, garlic, cheese, and guanciale (which is basically bacon). Oh- and pasta of course. It has quickly become one of our favorite dishes since we have been here!

Ciao y'all!

A Saturday in Florence

San Lorenzo Market, otherwise known as the leather market, where I purchased 5 purses and 2 wallets in a 20 min period. 

the Duomo

The Facade

On our way to the Archaeology Museum, we turned around, and this is what we saw!

Ponte Vecchio

again

From Piazza Michelangelo. The Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio, and the Duomo all in one photo. I must say, the Duomo totally dwarfs everything else around it. Thanks Casey! 

Casey and I at the lookout. Pretty Florence! 

Ciao Y'all!

Più...

hello all. Here are more pictures...

Oh Please, go ahead and park in the middle of the street/intersection!

piazza near our house that has 2 ATMs and a shop where they make fresh bread everyday!

a lovely Amitriciana dinner at Via Portuense 471 Roma

I mean, could they have parked any closer to one another?

this is a fontanella... they are throughout the city. It is perfectly good drinking water, and we use them to get a sip of water or fill up our water bottle. Sometimes they will have an additional spout on the top where you can plug the main faucet, and it will come out the top just like a water fountain in the US- brilliant! And they are always running. There is one along our bus route, one in our neighborhood, and several in the center that we have been using ;)

Piazza del Popolo. So cool that these churches are mirror images of each other! The street in the middle is Via del Corso where Casey bought a pair of Tom Fords. This street also takes you to the capital government building (the wedding Cake as Italians call it).

grapes in the neighborhood

street in the neighborhood

Ciao Y'all!

A first glance

Hopefully most of you have heard by now, but Casey and I are having major issues uploading our videos to this blog, so for now, we are just going to be posting our pictures. This is what we have seen and done since we have been here... Will be posting pics of the apartment a bit later this week!

cool large, round fountain near Piazza Navona

bahaha. Seagull on Bernini's Fountain of the Moor in Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona. You are looking at Bernini's famous Baroque Fountain of the Four Rivers, sculpted after the world's "greatest" rivers (Ganges, Nile, della Plata, and Danube). In the center is an Egyptian obelisk.

Pantheon, about 6:30 at night. Look at all the people!

The inside of the Pantheon's dome. 

The first and last Ferrari we have seen! It was about a block away from the Trevi Fountain.

Trevi Fountain

Hoards of people viewing the Trevi. 

Thousands of people as far as the eye can see. The beach outside of Rome is really cool. It is called Lido di Ostia, and you can pay to go to one of the private beaches, where the bring you a nice lounge chair. It was totally worth it because this photo was taken in the direction of the free, public beach, and as you can see it is crowded beyond belief... and they did not offer the amazing lounge chairs!

Our private section of the beach. See the chairs with the cabana/ sun guards? We are planning on going back in another week or so on a week day to see if it is any less crowded!

Beach vendors are everywhere... selling coconut, drinks, swimsuits, towels, watches & jewelry, knockoff sunglasses & purses, corn-on-the-cob. I bought my sarong from this guy! 

Sarah and Casey at the end of the day. Photo courtesy of the Italian lifeguards (i salvataggi). 

Ciao Y'all!