The last carefree day

• Manja Maksimovič

Here it is: the full year circle has passed since the innocence was lost. I spent the last day the best way I could, on a daytrip with my friend Flavia. Doors from this day are already on display on Thursdays, and here are some other glimpses from February 22nd 2020.

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When I parked and saw that Flavia was there already, I got out of the car and we burst into a fit of laughter. The day went on in this manner: everything was funny, poignant, special. The general feeling was as follows: all the things that we were able to do – pinpoint a meeting-place in the middle of almost nowhere, and then follow windows and doors of Viterbo to where they took us, and then proclaim a roofless structure the perfect location for a bloggers’ meet-up – were decadent, transient, luxuries.

We even set the date for the meet-up: April 24th 2021.

Coming?

Okay, okay, we will make it virtual.

Until then welcome to join us in this way. The first barely-there town is Montecalvello and then we continue to Viterbo, both in the province of Lazio northwest of Rome.

When I came home I learned that the Carnival of Venice had been cancelled, and the strangest year could begin.

  • On the road there I stopped to capture some of the new greens.
  • White on green.
  • Where we laughed: the entrance to Montecalvello.
  • Flavia in cheerful colours.
  • Full of grace.
  • Tiny new growth.
  • What there is and not much else.
  • Nothing flows.
  • A hop to Viterbo.
  • In Media Re.
  • Via Larga, a tiny cheerful street.
  • Stylish.
  • The flow.
  • Lions’ fountain at the Municipality.
  • The proof that the car from the previous post had gone eventually.
  • Slovenians, believe it: there was mineral water in these glasses, not schnapps.
  • I wouldn’t notice this had Flavia not looked up.
  • Eccolo: the location of the bloggers’ meet-up. It made us giggle for weeks.
  • The Snow White was ready. The Viterbo Carnival wasn’t cancelled.
  • Bestia waited at home but here is a relative.
  • It’s a question if this Little Red Riding Hood was performed a week later as planned.
  • The light was slowly going and I had so many doors still to click.
  • Goodbye, Viterbo. We must have felt this was the last such decadent day.
  • Seven and a half hours later I stopped again on the same spot.

25 thoughts on “The last carefree day”

  6. A year already, Manja! So long, and yet where did it go? Your images of the trip are wonderful. I remember we just made it to Marvao in the north of Portugal before the doors all slammed shut. And so they have stayed 😦 😦

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