THE NORTHERN WIND....
I want to travel SOOO badly right now.... If I haven't travelled in a while, I'm getting glimpses - quick glimpses - in my head, of places I've been, places I've had my sense wide open, places I've left my heart... It's a very peculiar feeling. The closest I've seen it depicted is in the movie "Chocolate", where the northern wind comes to drag mother and daughter away, tim eand time again, further and further, making it impossible to settle down. The northern wind is visiting me right now...
Of course it didn't help that I visited a grand travelling fair on Friday.... My favourite travelling magazine was present, and I bought 10 elder copies of magazines I didn't have (yummy!), plus I got 5 for free at another stand. So now I'm a travellign magazine junkie. My art books looks jealous, but they won't be left unread for long...
The place that haunts me the most is the somewhat easy-overlooked Italian city of Bergamo. It was my very first visit to Italy, and also the first place I truly went on my own, without a plan to meet any acquaintances or friends (I hadn't even booked a hotel room). And in my head it's still the place I ate THE best Italian ice cream ever. Bergamo = freedom and yummy ice cream.
Another place that keeps coming back in forms of pictures is the Greek city of Mytilene, on the island of Lesvos. I was majorly in love, and I remember staring out at the sea, getting a glimpse fo Turkey on the other side, thinking it was very close to ancient Troy. Mytilene = intense summer and a thousand new impressions
These places are not necessairly the places I love the most or that would be my main travelling choice, but they've come to represent the feeling of travelling and freedom, so they keep haunting my mind. Bergamo has also come to represent the whole of Italy for me, while Mytilene is a sort of summary of my experiences in Greece.
I'm off.... to visit Ryanair.... again....