1. We’ve circled the whole car park unsuccessfully but as we’re leaving – when we’re at the last section before the exit – that we find an empty spot.
2. The (construction) cranes are out of scale. It feels unnatural for them to be so large, so heavy, so close.
3. Even though the restaurant is fairly quiet (since it’s nearly 3pm, well past the lunch rush), the chef dashes around the kitchen at a hectic pace, shouting ‘rapido’ at her staff. We watch, curious about it all.
4. To wander around with no real purpose. We eat nice food and drink nice drinks but otherwise just enjoy having a day together.
4b. Something really, truly beautiful: we are both tempted to be frivolous – to buy things we don’t really need but would just like. In the end, we buy very little but it’s lovely, just fantastic, to know that we could have been spendthrifts if something had caught our fancy.
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