Papal Envy

So far, we've done lots of walking and exploring our area as well as eating and testing the bottom end price for a good bottle of red wine. Apparently 2.50 Euros does not deliver the quality you'd expect. On our walks, we've encountered all the expected shops - shoes, bakery, clothing, more shoes. But we stumbled on to a real find. In the middle of a normal shopping district a few blocks from our apartment is a shop that specializes in priests' robes and other priestly things. In the back, we could see a room full of chalices and other gaudy items (ahh, that's where the name gaudy came from). We thought we came across a one-in-a-million store, when we realized that the entire street was dedicated to GQ Priests and their toys. Another lesson we learned from this happenstance is that we always need to carry a camera. There with their noses practically pressed against the window glass were two priests dressed in black looking longingly at the red robe that they knew was just out of their reach. While we didn't catch this moment of papal envy here's a picture of the store.