My Obsession with Italy
Posted by blissandvinegar on May 29, 2007
I obsess about Italy. I get a bit loopy when I read about it. Or watch a movie set there. Or flip through recipes in La Cucina Italiana. A stack of old issues sitting on my desk floats in my peripheral vision, begging me to trek to the places hiding between their covers.
I travelled to Italy once. A whirlwind 2 week trip in 1995 from Milan to Bergamo to Venice to Florence to Pisa to Rome to Pompeii and finally to Amalfi. Each place amazed me. Each charmed in its own way. I want to go back and spend months in each, becoming a local, and absorbing everything Italian. Then I want to add to my list of destinations: Sicily, Puglia, the Cinqua Terre, Genoa, the Lake District, Abruzzi, and all the small towns scattered between. That is my dream.
Of course my husband, stepdaughters, dog, four cats and two best friends must accompany me. I dream big.
For now, I read and write about my obsession while Big Daddy (dog) chews on my Groucho glasses. And Q-Tip (cat #4) steps lightly from sewing machine to filing cart to desk, scattering her long white hairs along the way.
Ciao!
Candace said
I’d love to see Italy.
Tomcat and I are Anglophiles, so it had to be England first, tho.
Michele Bernard said
My husband’s dream is to cook his way across Italy. My dream is to take pictures of it and write about the experience. Oh, and talk about it over a nice bottle of wine! Peace, Michele