I SALDI!

Piazza Venezia

Vittorio Emanuele II 

In Italy every year the Italians and everyone else wait for the Saldi!  Saldi means sales.  It is a time when everything is marked down and some stores start at 20 or 30% and others start at 50%.  It is a lot of fun to go shopping.  The sales started Saturday, July 2.  Last night I went to Via del Corso shopping and was mainly browsing the stores.  There is a new Sephora shop that opened recently.  I wanted to go into Fendi but there was some famous Asian person in there with her children so they weren't letting anyone in.  I have no idea who she was and I couldn't even tell you her name even though I asked twice (ume - maybe or that's what is sounded like.)  Via del Corso sits between the Pantheon and the Fontana di Trevi as well as the Spanish Steps.  For us Americans the Saldi are not saldi because the exchange rate is so bad.  So if I see something that I really need then I will buy it.  I don't need another pair of shoes or sandals because I brought 6 pairs with me.  I was mainly shopping to get Julia something.  I still haven't bought her anything.  It was hard to walk the streets since there were so many people.  So the SALDI have started in Italy.