Text and images Britt-Arnhild Wigum Lindland
While I was busy shoting photos of Ravnkloa, the fishmarket, this boat passed me, down the canal. I was taken right back to Venice, Venezia, the stunning fairytale city I have come to love so deeply over the years.
Later I went grocery shopping with Marta, we were buying vegetables for the ratatouille we wanted to make for dinner. Our grocery store has a rack of magazines and books. Usually I never buy anything from there, but while waiting in line, to pay, my eyes fell upon a book by Donna Leon "A Sea of Trouble". One of the very few Donna Leon I haven't read. I had to buy it of course.......and my mind kept on wandering.
Venezia. Only a few months now, and I will be back with you.
Back to live on water for a few days.
I spend so much time on the vaporettos that dizziness follows me home as a souvenir.
Venezia, where every moment is a piece of art.
Do you have a place which holds this very special corner of your heart? I place you go back to again and again. A place you have only read about and hope to visit if not only once before you die, a place where your dreams take you.....
I have many such places. Places where my dreams take me. Places I visit again and again. Places I've read of, dreaming to visit.
My dreams enrichens my life.
Donna Leon's books are for Venezia........but I couldn't wait starting the one I bought. I still have a lot of books to read and to reread when I go to Venezia in May.
Today is for dreams.
.....and as the book tells about the fishing for vongole......well, then you know where my dreams go, don't you?
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But before anything else.....I'll go downtown with Marta. There we will visit Ravnkloa to buy their fresh shrimps.
Photo: Trondheim and Venezia. Now and then.
