Here's a handy travel tip: if you walk outside your front door, and somewhere near the Coliseum someone is blasting Madonna's "Like a Virgin" to the wildly excited cheers of a bazillion people...
....it's Roman Gay Pride, you idiot.
And it's marching in front of the Metro station where you're trying to go.
And there aren't any fun Mardi-Gras-style necklaces with penis-shaped beads, because apparently, that's less popular in Rome than you might think.
We still made it over to our metro stop (briefly marching in the parade to do so), and headed up to Trevi Fountain, which was impressive and all, but the crazy chick with her rainbow eyeshadow was maybe more impressive. How did she get her eyeshadow to BLEND like that? She's lucky it didn't clash with her skin, which was dead-white anyway.
Then we kept wandering till we came to a cool, big building. No clue what it was. It was white.
And from there, we just walked back through the Pride rally a mile or so, and now we are back on Via Claudia.
Oh, and we finally saw a really cool artisan kind of concept. Guys were creating amazing origami structures with palm fronds. Totally cool.
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