Ostia Antica and the Lido

On Saturday, Annie and I traveled to Ostia Antica and visited the ruins there. Ostia was the old Roman port town before the Tiber River changed course. The ruins are open air and you can even walk in and around most of them. All of the pictures of Ostia are on Annie's camera, so I will put those up when I get them, but the ruins were amazing. It is crazy to think that those ruins were a thriving town for so long and then were just left to crumble.

After spending a few hours wandering around the ruins (aka Scavi), we hopped on the train and went to the Lido (aka beach). I can officially say that I have set foot in the Mediterranean Sea, right about here! Again, more pictures to come!

Then, this morning, we went out to the market again to look for a few things. I got a small bag for when I go out as a tourist/on the city...kind of like a small messenger bag. It works great and I got it for only €10..so about  US$13. It is big enough to hold a water bottle, a book for train rides, and an umbrella with some room to spare! Annie loves it because now I don't have an excuse to use her purse as storage for tourist excursions, etc...LOL

The market is crazy, at least 10 blocks long and packed tightly...it shuts the area down from about 5am-5pm on Sundays.

View from the South end of the market,
just about a block south of our apartment building.
This is just one of the two rows.

Annie perusing the wares of Porta
Portese! She got a few nice scarves to
blend in with all the Romans.

A view of the market from one of our balconies.
It was about 3:00pm, so the vendors
had already started packing up!

Ciao for now,

Kyle