The fishing village of Fiumicino is a perfect stopping place if you're going right back to FCO (Rome airport) the next morning and if you love fresh fish! I love the scenes boats coming in, pulling down their nets, and getting the mending process started. When we go visit Malta's thriving fishing scene in Marsaloxx next week, I'll have plenty of pictures of the process on a smaller and more manual level.
I was simply amazed with how fresh one could get their fish. You can't see the trays of fresh fish in the picture, but that's what everybody is carefully analyzing from the trawler's catch. Walking down the pier can be a dangerous business though, with the threat of tripping over nets, random boxes of fresh catch, or, amusingly, getting nearly slapped with an eel as one fellow tossed his line of newly caught eel back across the pier with some apparent disgust and the voice tone certainly said volumes.
Heading to Malta in the morning, we decided to stay in Fiumicino and enjoy the docks for our official 10th wedding anniversary, snacking on incredibly delicious food akin only to what a tiny thriving fishing village would produce. Having been to Rome a few times, I can promise you that this particular pizza is more indigenous to Fiumicino!
