Maya Spektorov’s Reviews > A Florence Diary > Status Update

“florence definitely sprawls, and the cream houses with red roofs might easily be modern blocks of flats. it’s only when you are in it that it has such glamour and loveliness, and you see all the houses in all their delicious irregularity and overhanging eaves and decoratedness and tallness.”

“what i was after was not a shared experience, but the excitement of discovery. i was hungry for the thrill of being elsewhere.”