Woo hoo we're off for a short break - to Florence. Oh how Twin and I adored the book, the film, Freddie.... For some 'I Capture the Castle' is their teenage daydream book for us it was 'A Room with a View.' I'm reading my original copy with 1988 written in the inside in my school girl handwriting. I think this trip will be different to when Twin and I went. No pretending to be Lucy standing by the Arno. Warmth has already been warned, and was already aware, that there will be moments of "In A Room with a View this is where....."
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling...It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings , to lean out on the sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, the Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road." E.M. Forster A Room with a View.
A Room with a View
To revisiting cities in different stages in life.
Have a lovely time!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time - am sure you will! Am desperate to go there myself for all kinds of reasons, including to revisit the Uffizi and first-time-visit the Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Happy travels, Miss Honeychurch!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time: I think Florence is to you what Haworth is to me! At least there are no moors to be abandoned on!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time. I love going back to places years later too. We will get to Florence one day soon, but for this half term we are making do with the Cotswolds! Hmmm!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful trip!
ReplyDeleteI adore Florence and was just there at the end of September!! My sister and I LOVE A Room With A View and we went to Florence together in 2008 and kept quoting from the book. I adore Forster.
ReplyDeleteFlorence is truly magical and romantic and I hope you have a wonderful time.
Have a wonderful time!! Can't imagine a better place to go for a little time away.
ReplyDeleteAwww, that's so sweet that you could share a book and movie like that with your sister. I hope you have a wonderful time in Florence. (And young Rupert Graves as Freddie with the floppy hair is definitely cute.)
ReplyDeleteI love those words :) Have an amazing weekend!! Sounds fabulous.
ReplyDeleteSounds wonderful...enjoy every second!
ReplyDeleteJulie xo
I adored A Room With a View when I read it earlier this year, and it certainly made me want to visit Florence as well. Have a lovely time!
ReplyDeleteA Room with A View is a big favourite of mine too- although I love I Capture the Castle as well. A Room... is weightier though- and I agree dear Freddie, funny Cecil, Mr Beebe and of course Mr Emerson (senior) who I think it very touching
ReplyDeleteAre you fan of the film too? it's so ridiculously well done I think