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#DecemberDreams Day 4: #LetItSnow on this tenerina chocolate cake - a delicacy in Ferrara in all its soft-moist glory. Nothing like it.

#HumbleHarvest Day 23: #Gratitude for having this exquisite lunch in Ferrara today - one of the best I have ever eaten in Italia. Puff pastry with prosciutto and cheese -
Lots of cheese. 💕

#HumbleHarvest Day 19: Pistachio #Nuts in this pizza with buratta cheese, truffle oil, and prosciutto in our very first lunch in Bologna when we arrived yesterday from Sharjah (via Istanbul). Took the train to Ferrara this morning where we are now til Thursday. Naturally, I bring Italo Calvino with me while in Italy. 💕

Pretty sure that‘s probably one of my great-grandpas. 😀

Sitting in a cafe after having been caught in a summer shower seems an appropriate context for this read.

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten how to read physical books. 🤔

Another short one by Italo Calvino. I picked it for a readathon last weekend. But it should have been something I read over a little time, not as a quick read-through in one sitting. Mr. Palomar‘s insights are worth savoring. The mere fact that we have no idea what‘s going on in each other‘s heads is worthy of more contemplation than I gave it for this readathon. You should linger over these observations longer than I did - they‘re worth it.

Both charming and remarkably insightful. First half got a bit exhausting because Calvino was apparently eyeballs deep in art and literary criticism from the Italian scene between 1910 and 1980; but the second half, about imagination and travel, was beautifully done.

Calvino: the first Litten. 😂

"The city is always a transmission of messages, it is always a discourse."

Boom.