Thursday, August 8, 2013

Arrivo

The view of Civita as you arrive at the base of the bridge never fails to amaze. Thanks to our good friends Lucio and Rita, high school classmates of my wife Carlotta's, I arrived in style on July 22, getting a ride from Rome and avoiding the train / bus / shuttle bus or hike option. The bridge, of course, still needs to be hiked.













We all had lunch at Alma Civita, a fairly new restaurant right under my apartment. I didn't do this sketch until a few days later, but it shows the view of the arrival to Alma, just around the corner to the left, and the Civita Institute properties, up the next little vicolo, where the little girl is pointing.


After lunch we said goodbye to Lucio and Rita, here with Sandro Rocchi, who owns and runs Alma with his family. Sandro was the first civitonico that I met in 1984 when he spotted me and two or three other students walking from the bus to Civita, took me by the arm and walked with us. He's still the same outgoing, friendly guy.


5 comments:

  1. Your drawings are beautiful! Congratulations on this -- what an adventure.

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  2. Rarely in life is there an opportunity to revisit an experience like this--congratulations! It will be interesting to hear how it resonates with the "you" of today vs. the "you" of 29 years ago. Who has changed more; you or Civita?!

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  3. Interesting perspective, Cheryl - hadn't really thought about it that way (hey, I haven't changed at all!). This will be the subject of a future blog (soon).

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  4. What a wonderful opportunity...can't wait to see more sketches and photographs! Is Carlotta with you?

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  5. Carlotta will be here for the second month - wish she could have come for the full 2 months (I think she does now, too!).

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