There is a bubble man in Piazza Navona.
For us, this is a big deal. St. Peter’s, The Pieta, the ancient streets and pillars of the Roman forum, even the colosseum— they are all fine, but honestly for my girls everything is secondary to the Bubble Man.
This is what it means to be living in Rome: to find the every day sparks of life that are living and working among the sites. Piazza Navona is just down the road from where we are living. We’ve gone through the obligatory mornings of admiring and learning about the sculptural fountains; we know about the four rivers, about Bernini and Borromini. We very much love Neptune wresting the octopus.
That said, now that we know all we are supposed to know— I feel like we are finally able to visit Piazza Navona (and so many other places around Rome) and just enjoy being here. We can be done learning dates and names, and truly enjoy the piazza as it was intended to be experienced— as a place where life comes together in the city for art, music, games...
... and bubbles?
This man doesn’t know it yet, but he is numero uno on our list of Roman superstars and will probably be getting a lot of my Euros if he continues to fill the piazza every day with his masterwork to entertain my children.
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