Ambience

I’m in the walled garden of the Ambience Café Bar waiting for breakfast to arrive. It’s a small space, paved for tables immediately outside the kitchen, then rising steeply towards the medieval city walls. There’s a breeze in the street but here we are sheltered and a thin sun concentrates on warming us through. At [...]






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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost — a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father — that we understand the full weight of what we had. Bill Buford

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