Category: travel
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I have been slowing down, sifting through, and clearing out on purpose. Life has presented me with an abundance of challenges over the past few months, with children, family, finances and grand life decisions. I keep reassuring myself there is no wrong here, just different paths to take, i keep reminding myself that i am…
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Slow roasted chicken with silky potatoes green beans and veloutè sauce.
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we ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other Earnest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Restaurant Polidor 41 rue monsieur Le prince 75006 ParisPolidor restaurant featured in Woody Allen’s, Midnight in Paris 2011 We dined here three time during our four night stay, at this…
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sacred spaces.
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Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it. I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. Philip Pullman These pictures were taken from a few of the many breathtakingly beautiful churches around Italy. I always love the feeling that becomes…
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words from whitman…
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of…
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where we layed our hats, in Florence.
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Our studio apartment in S.Maria Novella, Florence can be described as no more than, à la mode, perfectly designed in layout, filling every space so cleverly that you really didn’t feel confined at all. The windows opened wide looking onto the streets below and across to neighbouring apartments in true Italian style. It was light and airy…
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Shakespeare and company.
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Fifty Grand and The Sun also Rises, introduces us to Hemingway. His individual and his concept of human nature were both very close to ours (referring to Jean-Paul Sartre). Hemingways lovers were in love all of the time, body and soul, actions emotions and words were all equally permeated with sexuality and when they gave themselves…
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there should be a two-year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work, or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people and take lots of pictures.. -via withshoeslikethat what a wondrous ‘une période de transition’ from adolescence to adulthood and learning about one’s…
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thoughts on Venice.
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Venice, she’s relic, loved passionately, admired for all her beauty,taken advantage of, mistreated, deep in-depth, full of secrets, helpless, relentless, breathtakingly beautiful, fierce yet ravishing, seductive in nature and history, provocative, hidden, devastatingly captivating and deeply mysterious in all her ways.. how could you not fall madly, deeply in love with her. -carly macaulay
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“You may have the universe if I may have Italy… -Giuseppe Verdi.