Wishing everyone the very best things in 2012.
Banfi, how I have adored thee here in Italia.
I hope to find you when I return to Belgium because you are, quite simply, delicious!
If I had had more money, I would have tried the 10euro version of you on sale in Coop. Never mind, you were a good companion while on the road.
Grazie!
I have spent the evening in fine company ... watching the dvd documentary of Genovese singer, Fabrizio de Andre.
It has subtitles.
I love it.
Well yes, this isn’t the first time I have watched Effedia - Sulla Mia Cattiva Strada which translates as On My Own Bad Road.
He was storyteller, a singer, a good man. I like hearing him talk ... sing, tell his stories.
German director, Wim Wenders, raves about him. I am in good company.
The flooding is rather serious here ... 3 rivers have broken their banks and already 5 people are confirmed dead, with 3 missing.
We’re up on the hill here in the city and, as far as I know, there are no rivers close by ... We have bought supplies and hope that the rain stops soon but already noted that via XX Settembre is closed down by the covered market. Rain is predicted for a couple more days. There have been some impressive ‘Fiordland rainforest’ downpours througout the day, the difference being that Fiordland New Zealand sits on glacial moraine and drainage is rather efficent. Here the rain all runs down off the hills that surround Genova ... down into the homes and streets that lead to the sea.
It’s 18 celsius, with a warm wind blowing, as I write this at 17.11. It’s disturbingly dark ... daylight saving ended at the weekend, and there is this odd sense of not being sure of what is happening in the city, beyond what I’m reading in the English newspaper found online. It was like this in Istanbul when the city was closed by two huge snowfalls but somehow, this is different. I am realising, once again, that I didn’t prepare for stuff like this.
You will get a sense of it perhaps when viewing one of the early slideshows of the flooding.
I was sitting here, minding my own business at 6.50am, when the sound of the rain registered.
It’s heavy rain out there. I wandered on over to Stefano’s RighiCam and clicked on the 10 day weather forecast. Seems we’re in for some rain here ... and some more rain too, actually.
People are hoping that those living in Cinque Terre will be okay during this series of deluges. You can keep up with news in English from Cinque Terre via Kate Little at Little Paradiso who, in this particular post, lists others who are also writing of the flooding there last week.
Meanwhile, it’s good weather for writing a book, I’m thinking ...
There are the ‘right ways’ of taking photographs and then there’s the ‘fooling around’ ...
This was the latter ... the fooling around. I took this handheld, low-light, high ISO but I wanted to capture the snails.
