ERIC NEWBY
On the Shores of the Mediterranean
To Wanda, the only item of essential equipment – apart from a Rolex watch (boiled in a stew by Afghans to test its waterproof qualities) – not lost, stolen or simply worn out in the course of some thirty years of travel together.
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When people in England and America ask about our house in Italy and we tell them that it is in northern Tuscany, their eyes light up, because Tuscany is one of the parts of Italy that the British and the Americans know about, or think they do. For most of them who have visited it, Tuscany conjures up that rather open-cast country permanently suffused in golden light that forms the background of so many fourteenth-century paintings, country in which