Venezia you are a mystery to me with your open sky and breathtaking views. Your waters twist around every building and I could get lost in these zig-zag streets that you call home. Your walls are spray-painted with English words telling me to “unlock my soul” yet when I stare at these silver words, at these ancient buildings, at the lush velvet seats and Persian rugs that line your gondolas…nothing comes. I remain closed to you.
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Posted by Aimee Lee on Sep 20, 2010 06:55 am in America, American tourist in Italy. Italy, Disney, Epcot, Epcot. Italian Pavilion, Female Anthony Bourdain, Italia, Italy, Travel, Vegetarian Anthony Bourdain, venice
Posted by Aimee Lee on Sep 05, 2010 11:24 am in Firenze, Florence food, Food and Travel, Italian Food, Italy, Traveling Abroad, Vegetarian Anthony Bourdain
The language of love is dancing in my mind, so much so that I’m awake at 4am (Florentine time) while my body demands, “No, damn it, it is only 10pm. What are you doing trying to sleep!?”
As the pale-white aurora of clouds sweeping across the spiderweb of stars tries to convince me to sleep, I can but only feel tiny in this massive world of things I don’t know... of things I’ve yet to experience.
Two days under these skies of discovery and history. Ti amo Firenze. There are little old women with push carts and tanned skin, whose hardened Italian faces stare me down, then up, then down again, perhaps to say, “Yes I know you are an outsider, but I like your dress.”
