Citta Di Fiumicino -City of Little River — "cino" is "little" in Italian

The six or eight fellow linguists that read this blog can figure out "river" and most of the rest can get "city." We have learned so many languages on this trip.  (Of course in about 30 minutes I could not tell you "river" from "tall building", but it was good to know for a minute or two.)

Got back to Italy — or the Rome airport area - and are staying in Fiumicino, where the airport is,  as we fly out early in the morning tomorrow for Newark, then Panama City, then overnight then Medellin - yes it will be a little more travelin'.

In addition to listening to and watching airplanes land and take off this is a fishing town. So that is what there is to do here - in the evening go watch the fishing boats come in and the activities on the fishing docks. So we did.

Fisherman selling just a few containers of fish from his boat— leftovers or samples, I don't know.

Unloading directly to be put on a large cart.

Carton after carton of various soft shelled shrimp and octopus as well as fish.

As a ship came in, crowds would cluster around each.

Sometimes arguing over who said/got/did/paid/what? when? — however this disagreement continued.  I watched it. White hat guy tried to console pointy finger guy to no avail after crowd broke up. Red shirt guy got the fish.

Fishermen mending nets -

the fishermen were a surprisingly older group of men.

Fishermen were cleaning nets, we watched this team for a while.

And as we were about to leave, this guy waved for us to not leave and stepped back into his boat and retrieved the object shown below for me to photograph. I bet he goes fishing at that location again. He was a proud looking man and happy to be photographed with his prize.

it was a windy hot day —

Just looking, not buying.

Lots of strange looking bottom living sea creatures.

Dock side fish market.

The harbor.

And a local in-store fish market.

Sharing Sicilian pizza and a local beer for lunch; 

it was very good.

Baked fish, potatoes with olive oil and spices for dinner.

It was great.

flying to Newark on way to South America in a few hours.