Our day 2 blogger is Sean Hardie
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| Our home for three days - Palazzo Rainone Mustilli - an agriturismo in Sant' Agata dei Goti, Benevento |
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| Beautiful Sant' Agata dei Goti |
Thursday June 5, 2014
Ah but a writers life is hard,
no-one understands. We are always working. As dawn breaks over the eternal city Nuala is
already at her desk thumbing through her thesaurus for acronyms for aurora; at
breakfast Noel scribbles another ode, already he is onto his fourth napkin. As
we drive south along the Appian way – working, always working – Mia studies the
driver’s body language, the way his nicotined finger reaches out to touch the sat nav. As
we pull our suitcases along the narrow cobbled streets of Sant’ Agata I’m already plagiarising Merchant Ivory and Henry James, or perhaps The
Leopard. Liz has fallen silent, a new
metaphor forming, we are all jealous. Bill – working, always working – eats constantly,
searching for the perfect words to match the tastes and textures of Italian
cuisine. It is hard, this life, exhausting. Poor Afric is in despair, crossing
out the adverbs, gazing into space while poor Valerie attempts to herd her mice
on to the next cross roads. And this is only day two and already the clichés are
running out...
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| Wine made by the Mustilli family (with apricots!) |
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