Loved this -your writing, photos, and the song. Certainly brings back the memory of the wonderful paradores - and ‘Que Calor! I think, though, we travelled the Camino in the ancient brown Ford Cortina estate, the Sierra being its more sprightly successor. And, as you comment, all done with paper maps. Which is why I remember doing most of the driving, being an unreliable navigator.X
Omg Agnes, Bagdad Cafe! We loved that movie (and Säggabrecht) , so much that once on a trip we even found the the town of Rosenheim!
As usual, you have described in word pictures, the stultifying heat and torpor so graphically, as did your Vespa song, which transported us back to our recent two weeks in Naples!
I lived in New Mexico at the time. We were captivated by the hyper-reality of that film, and especially its song, I’m Calling You. The most New Mexican of my friends, a French-American woman from Massachusetts used it as the announcement on her voice mail.
I think we saw it at a cinema in Hampstead. I was probably too young to get most of what was going on but I remember loving the total difference of atmosphere from London. Definitely a cinematic epiphany! And that song is excellent. Baci, Agnes
Neapolitan is virtually a different language isn’t it? And how is it that, the middle of summer, you managed to find so many locations in Rome without one person in the frame?
Loved this -your writing, photos, and the song. Certainly brings back the memory of the wonderful paradores - and ‘Que Calor! I think, though, we travelled the Camino in the ancient brown Ford Cortina estate, the Sierra being its more sprightly successor. And, as you comment, all done with paper maps. Which is why I remember doing most of the driving, being an unreliable navigator.X
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Omg Agnes, Bagdad Cafe! We loved that movie (and Säggabrecht) , so much that once on a trip we even found the the town of Rosenheim!
As usual, you have described in word pictures, the stultifying heat and torpor so graphically, as did your Vespa song, which transported us back to our recent two weeks in Naples!
what a movie! I must have been 10 or 11 when I saw it but I remember that arid landscape so well! thanks as ever for reading x
I lived in New Mexico at the time. We were captivated by the hyper-reality of that film, and especially its song, I’m Calling You. The most New Mexican of my friends, a French-American woman from Massachusetts used it as the announcement on her voice mail.
I think we saw it at a cinema in Hampstead. I was probably too young to get most of what was going on but I remember loving the total difference of atmosphere from London. Definitely a cinematic epiphany! And that song is excellent. Baci, Agnes
It truly stays with you. Now, I’ve been humming it all day.
Loved listening to' Che Calore' and your travels through Spain too
Always so fascinating to read this and to admire the beautiful photos too
thanks Aline!
Neapolitan is virtually a different language isn’t it? And how is it that, the middle of summer, you managed to find so many locations in Rome without one person in the frame?
I find in general everyone is always in the same places, so they’re crowded and everywhere else isn’t
It has been astonishingly hot in the Chicago area as well. Finally, it is back down to a tolerable 30 today. So - off to the much-neglected garden.
Finally tolerable here too! All best from Roma & thanks for reading!