TOSCANA II
Toscana II June 2024 https://youtu.be/UXBChfWHH-Y We met in a weightless space, in a place where certain laws don’t apply and our friends’ advice don’t reach us, because no one knows where it is. We tried to be lonely together and to find the days outside of time again to see if our memories are memories […]
Madeira
Madeira May 2021 On our first day, we watched, from the bed, a curtain swaying in the breeze. That was all. It was a semi-transparent, white veil of fantasy that moved between us and the view. Through the curtain, we could see the balcony, and from the balcony, through the flower garden, out to the […]
Lago di Como
Lago di Como September 2020 The Tremezzo is a spectacle. A parade of impostors, dazzlers, elegant bon vivants, rendezvous of the nouveau riche, coquettes, travelling salesmen, dandies, lounge lizards, old sacks with young-blooded women, all meticulously staged. Caricatures who distract themselves from death with a lot of money and have forsaken their humanity for the […]
Antibes
Antibes April 2023 It’s our fourth time on the Riviera. Now I can say that we’re always there. Four times are enough for an ‘always’, at least in literature. One takes out the rubbish, the other selects outfits. One waters the plants, the other is still picking outfits. A clear division of roles. It’s usually […]
Olivone
Olivone September 2020 Back then, in that time that is long gone, while reading a lot of Hesse’s novels, we lived in a village in a house that stood freely and squarely in a valley, completely forgotten, fallen into the mountains. A stream flowed through the valley, and the valley was deep, descending, reaching the […]
Toscana
Toscana September 2019 The end of that summer started with a wedding. Not ours, we just took over the honeymoon. It was a while ago, but we can still remember a lot of wine, long driveways, dust, cypress trees, and clouds that just hung there, over a huge wave of landscape. We sat under the trees […]
Lago Maggiore
Lago Maggiore November 2021 Stresa is like Milan by the sea. Northern melancholy with southern charm. On clear days, you can see from Milan across the plain to the mountains. I didn’t know the Alps were so close to the city. Sitting on the train and seeing that, driving up Lago Maggiore, thinking how beautiful it […]
Portofino
Portofino April 2022 Portofino has never interested me. Lots of cars, even more people, and a bay. Always someone trying to sell beach towels. Bad and expensive food. Flashy, but not glamorous. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton had style. In their stories, Portofino is still exactly as it never was. Today, 50 Cent comes and […]
Côte D’Azur
Côte D’Azur September 2019 We spent that summer where the Queen of England once spent her winters. We stayed in a Wilhelminian style hotel overlooking the sea and drank martinis at the hotel bar. It was a beautiful bar with blue velvet and brass, the waiters wore cufflinks and handed out canapés. The bar was […]
Vitznau
Vitznau May 2022 I had about twenty or thirty pages of notes, eager to be written, when we arrived in Vitznau. We had spent the last few weeks in many different countries, and between countries we stopped in Lisbon to celebrate my book finally being in bookshop windows and a few other things.We needed peace […]