I arrived home late last night after three fabulous days in Venice. I had the joy of a day full of winter sun, of incredible light dancing over the canals and playing over the faded buildings. On my last day Carnevale started and incredibly dressed people sat in the window of Florian. It was like a double take to the 17th century. Venice never ceases to enchant me.
Though travel inspires and revives my love for life there is no trip like the flight home.
Whilst in Venice I had the pleasure of meeting three wonderful foreign women who had all fallen in love with a Venetian and made Venice home. An Australian, an American and a German all having their version of A Thousand Days in Venice.
For all of you who love Venice and a good love story you will love the adventure of Marlena de Blasi in A Thousand DAys in Venice. I learnt so much about Venice and its culture and food from this book.
"He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,” as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met.
Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena is overwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its rituals and customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens up its arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippi caviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takes the tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to a candlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she and Fernando, two disparate souls, build an extraordinary life of passion and possibility."
Carla xx
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Thoroughly enjoyed this post - I might need to get that book is sounds indulgent :)
ReplyDeleteCarnivale in Venice ... I would love to see that!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that book many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Must dig it out again to reread and enjoy the fantasy!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful weekend back home!
xx
This was a great book and love story as well as A Thousand Days in Tuscany. There is nothing like the mysterious mist of Venice on a cold day. Many, many years ago after our first trip to Venice with my husband he purchased for me the pictorial book, Venice in November. Che romantico!! The inscription reads, ...may we always have Venice in November......
ReplyDeleteBest, Lisa
I look forward to all those delightful photos you will be sharing!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to start reading...thanks xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
ReplyDeleteOh my, my girlfriend insisted I read this prior to my visit to Venice 18mths ago and it set me up beautifully.
ReplyDeleteI love the city, love love love it and it's so picturesque no matter where I looked
sounds like a fun read ! great tip you give us once again!
ReplyDelete"achingly lovely city" - oh, yes!!! For me, that description applies to Rome, Paris, my beloved Greece - it could be anywhere in Europe that's steeped in history, rich cultures, adventure and lifestyles that make you feel deliciously alive! Why does it 'ache' so much when all you want to do is be there to immerse - lose - yourself in their 'loveliness'? More to the point, why don't I feel that way about my own city?
ReplyDelete'Aching in Melbourne' - Sophie