Lucky enough to get a sneak preview of Jens’s new gaff in the hills above Sestri Levante, just before the builders move in. “You got beds, you got water – what more do you want?”
The walls are smooth plaster…it’s all (bar figurine!) done with paint – a Liguria regional specialty, apparently
The village cemetery, each tomb bearing a portrait of the occupant
You’ve seen it in a thousand pictures, but it still drops your jaw. The lean is just ridiculous!
The eloquence of stone…
Exquisite etchings in Pisa’s Museo delle Sinopie, illustrating preparatory workings for the Camposanto frescoes, tragically all but destroyed during WW2. (Check the horse breaking the 4th wall!)
Remaining frescoes preserved at the Museo – faded, so fragile, but bursting with life