Antiques and More

This was a beautiful day with partly cloudy skies and a cool breeze.  Sarah and I got up and made our way via Metro and Tram to the neighborhood of the Ponte Mulvio first Sunday of the month antique market. We figured it would be too expensive for us but I wanted to get a feel for what we could expect the prices to be.  Sarah speaks a little Italian so she understood when the vendor told her it was 1000 euro. Whoa! That was a shocker.  I congratulated her on her good taste. :)

We moved on and looked at many booths with collections of jewelry, porcelain, silver, furniture and paintings.  It was all in all a very interesting time.  We both love antques and just looking at the variety was interesting.  We tried the fresh squeezed lemonade with ginger and really enjoyed it.  I'll have to make it like that when I get home.

After collecting the others, we went to our favorite pizza place in our neighborhood.  The pizza is sold by weight.  They have already cooked varieties to choose from.  You point at the one you want. They hack off a chunk and weigh it.  Then it goes in the toaster oven to be reheated.  A chunk the size of a personal pizza costs around 3 euro.  Today I had the one with tomato sauce and salami topped with mozzarella.  Actually, I think the cheese goes on top of the sauce and the salami was on top.  The crusts are all thin and crispy and really delicious.  Some of the choices include broccoli and sausage with no tomato sauce; spinach and sausage; potato,  again with no tomato sauce just cheese on top of the crust and thinly sliced potatoes on top; mushroom and cheese with no sauce; mushroom and cheese with tomato sauce; and every little shop has their own slight variations on this theme.

We like this little pizzaria becauase it is friendly.  The girl who works there is always accomodating and friendly toward us, unlike many of the places we've been.  It is also close to our apartment and open 24 hrs and quite affordable.  So we've gone back there enough times to be regulars. :)

The afternoon was spent in writing our papers.  I am about half-done having written 7 pages comparing and contrasting different examples of Baroque painting we've seen.  I now need to get busy and do the architecture and sculpture sections.  We're hoping to get done by Wed night with our papers so we can take the half day on Thursday to go to the beach. If I had known that Charis had never been to the ocean before, we would have done that with the girls yesterday.  They all want to go back on Thursday so we'll see if we can make it work.

Buona Sera!