Category: Europe
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Carbis Bay
Bright blue, bright hydrangeas, bright color, everywhere. The vibe is Mediterranean summer. The mood is Cape Cod beach vacation. It’s fresh. It’s wide open and packed. This is, in spite of everything my senses communicate to me, England. ___ Day 3, Cornwall Trip It was only early afternoon when we decided to leave St…
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St Ives
St Ives is blue, blue, warm, every shade of blue and light, quietly, knowingly waiting under the sun. ___ Day 3, Cornwall Trip It was a twenty minute drive across the peninsula for us from Penzance to St Ives. We parked high on a hill just outside of the main village, it was so…
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Lizard
Lizard, like a picture of Southeast Asia. Maybe Italy. Green and blue and black sand. Soft grey light. Not England, in England. Flowers, everywhere. Purple, yellow, white. Butterflies, cows, the most violent foam waves crashing into the cliffs. It’s all wild and wonderful. Beautiful. Free. ___ Day 2, Cornwall Trip A day exploring the The Lizard…
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St Michael’s Mount
Cornwall is mint, seafoam, green, wild, dunes, disconnected. Soft colors and a soft breeze. Caribbean blue and hydrangeas bigger than my head. Not the Mediterranean, nor South East Asia. It’s England, this sandy other world, and what I will always remember most about it is how far away it made me feel, way out on…
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Île de Ré
Quiet, deep minty-green shutters and a soft palm. Seagulls gently calling out over the orange rooftops. Warm sunrise glow, deep and rich like a sunset. A slow form of breathing returns, fresh air. Sweet air, creeping in from the tiny crack where the shutters meet and loosely hang open. It is my 29th birthday, and…
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Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Saint-Martin-de-Ré, bright, hot sun. Warm whites, pastel shutters. Solitary hollyhocks. Salty, sweaty, slow. Oyster shells in crates and bins. Boats sitting on the sand, stuck in the harbor, and fishermen selling the fresh catch. Wild, raw. Real. My birthday trip to the French coast, but this time, instead of the south, to the west –…
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