Christmas Meme #3

[keiliss]

Ehh, I am running a day behind. Will catch up, just being stretched a bit thin this week.

If you could spend a month in any city in the world, what you choose? (from Oshun)

Any city in the world? That's easy and hard at the same time. My first instinct is Rome, I loved Rome and swore I'd go back (preferably not in the middle of summer and millions of tourists next time!). I loved the light and the air and that immense sense of age (I'm from a young country, the oldest building, the Castle, has only stood since the mid 1600s, so age fascinates me). I have memories of buying fruit at a street market and going up above the city and eating it on the steps outside a little church... would love a month just to wander around, find more places and moments like that. Of course I do also love London, so it would be a matter of tossing a coin maybe. And come to think of it, I could do a month in Paris just fine...

Or maybe some place I've never been? Istanbul? R's niece was there for a conference a few months ago and couldn't stop talking about it (okay, in her case it was the shopping, I'd go for the history). And talking of history, I would love to visit Cairo - well Egypt generally, but base myself there.

If I'm going to look at places I've never been but would love to visit, this could be a longer list than I have 'awake time' left in me.

Rome. I want to go to Rome.

Comments

[ysilme]

Heh, I get you on the "easy and hard". I've never been to Rome, and I don't know if I will ever, now, like many many other cities I'd love to see. But in the time of instagram, vloggers, influencers, and mass tourism, it seems wherever you want to go people are trampling each other nearly to death by their sheer numbers... *sigh*