12 more hours and I will be flaneuring along the canals of Venice…
The most romantic city in the world, allegedly… (However, the reality may just be a city that casts a sharp eye on it’s many visiting artists, travelling accross the globe to find themselves in fiece competition, eye-to-eye-races to impress the next bigger and better and more emminent persons of rank and influence..) Nevertheless, I will soon be viewing all kinds of art, some wonderful, some less so, in exquisite location..Marvelous!
Should one bring the laptop and harddrive to get on with some work while there, or just give up on that altogether…? Take a book instead…? It has been such a long time since I have been detached from my laptop.. Such a long time since I have just had the indulgence of immersing myself in the print of a book…
Since it will be my 3rd visit to Venice, I may be less in awe of the location and perhaps more able to focus on work..? It would require another 5kg of gear to carry around… Will I really have time..?
Perhaps just the pen and paper and there will undoubtedly be at least one book that will find it’s way accross a till counter and into my bag.. Maybe it is a rare opportunity to leave the laptop-film-editing work behind and embrace the time to think, let the muse come by and kiss me thoroughly…
Yes, it shall be a pen and paper and daydream kind of trip. That is that… decided..
(Oh, but the laptop looks me in the eye and says: " Are you really sure about that…? Think about the deadlines speeding closer and closer…")
