MichelleUgly buildings
September 17th 2007 09:50
A friend recently admitted that she had always dreamed of travelling solo, leaving the city she’d grown up in and seeing the world from the road for a year or more. What stopped her?
She fell in love during College and was engaged by the time she’d graduated from University.
Does love encumber our desires or simply redirect them?
It’s amazing the stuff that attracts me. I mean, ugly buildings and stone walls fascinate me. The Duomo was interesting like I said, but the Castello Sforzesco wouldn’t leave me alone. My first visit to Milan and I came across this huge brick building, old and decrepit, surrounded by the screams of bad Italian traffic but I went in and everywhere I looked, found pockets of classical elegance or lines of enticing sculptors. It was also the first place someone tried to pick me up. He used the ‘sorry, don’t speak much English. Do you have a hankie on you?’
Yeah, right. Good try.
Didn’t matter that he was 14. These Italian men will use any excuse!
Michelangelo has an unfinished work here, I believe and there are a number of other Renaissance pieces, none that will take your breath away but it’s a quiet spot, or it was when I went and there’s something about forsaken castles that sometimes hold more than those buildings surrounded by fanfare.
She fell in love during College and was engaged by the time she’d graduated from University.
Does love encumber our desires or simply redirect them?
It’s amazing the stuff that attracts me. I mean, ugly buildings and stone walls fascinate me. The Duomo was interesting like I said, but the Castello Sforzesco wouldn’t leave me alone. My first visit to Milan and I came across this huge brick building, old and decrepit, surrounded by the screams of bad Italian traffic but I went in and everywhere I looked, found pockets of classical elegance or lines of enticing sculptors. It was also the first place someone tried to pick me up. He used the ‘sorry, don’t speak much English. Do you have a hankie on you?’
Didn’t matter that he was 14. These Italian men will use any excuse!
Michelangelo has an unfinished work here, I believe and there are a number of other Renaissance pieces, none that will take your breath away but it’s a quiet spot, or it was when I went and there’s something about forsaken castles that sometimes hold more than those buildings surrounded by fanfare.
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