Burnin' Man's Market

As I mentioned in the last post, Campo de' Fiori was a square not far from our hotel, Hotel Teatro Di Pompeo, in Rome. The centerpiece of it is the doom and gloom statue of Mr. Bruno. This map shows our hotel (yellow) and the square (red) to give you an idea of how we were right in the middle of things. The other markers (blue) show some of the places we went.


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But the square as a whole isn't nearly as dark: Each morning, it hosts one of the best fresh food markets in Rome and by night it becomes one of the most popular drinking locations. We spent some time at the morning market and walked through once the sun had went down and the transformation from one to the other was interesting.

One thing you'll see is a spigot of water running into a bucket; these spigots were everywhere and it took about an hour in the Rome heat before we were right in there with everyone else: drinking, washing our faces, splashing water on our necks, and refilling our water bottles. These things were a godsend.