“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Fresh off a 12-hour flight to Milan,
we hopped onto a three-hour railway tram into Venice.
Grabbed lunch at the train station
And off we go
Our stop: Santa Lucia
Buon Giornata, Venezia
One of their prime, very beautifully hand-crafted, tourist rip-offs
which are too elegant and gorgeous to look at to be of much practicality.
Big on Masquerades
Dinner at Trattoria
Mr Keith Chow, Milan buddy!
Yes just take my breath and heart away
At one of the many bridges over the canal
Italy – the start of my gelato frenzy
This is how they entice people to stay the night at their B&B
With Paolo Sarpi
GONDOLES – great way to spend a lazy afternoon drifting down the canals of Venice
but just beware of the speedboats
More Gondoles
Heading back to Milan at sunset…
I must have left my heart behind…
“You look like a Victoria.”
I ought to give myself a new name.
“But can’t you see that all the trouble lies here! In the words! All of us have a world full of things inside of us, each of us his own world full of things!
And how can we understand one another, sir, if in the words I speak I put the meaning and the value of things as I myself see them, while the one who listens inevitably takes them according to the meaning and the value which he has in himself of the world he has inside of himself.
We think we understand each other; we never understand one another.”
– Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello
How do people sleep at night, given the lies they say, the different stories told to different faces.
Whatever you say, indeed.
