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Once a place to see your horses and cattle, as well as to watch a public execution or two, Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori is now home to the vegetable and flower market held every weekday, as well as packed tourist priced bars in the evening.
But arrive around 2pm just when the stalls are packing away for the day, find a comfy spot and watch for free the national sport of ‘How many things can I stack onto my Ape?
On top of these ancient Vespa Vans are piled more things than the laws of gravity can possibly justify. Enough to take home your crates of unsold oranges, apples, potatoes and water melons but what about your cash register, your tables and your chairs? No problem. Even room for the dog and its mother as long as the driver does not mind standing as he bounces off over the cobbles.
- Contributed by Samantha Collins. Read about her Travels Tales from Italy at www.samanthacollinsrome.blogspot.com.
What was so amazing to me , was the age along with the fact that they were still functioning up and down the mountain roads of Southern Italy.
In America we cannot keep the GM’s or Chrysler’s running!
Wonderful to see.