Have I told you yet about… -one day when I was in Vicenza with family, I borrowed the bicycle to take a ride through the ochre-colored fields? Sunny, a bit of wind, the mountains to my left, an old clock tower, the very center of a very old village, straight ahead. I take a main street for only a bit, and then turn into more residential streets and finally a path made for walkers and bikers through fields, accompanied by a tiny, winding, clear and alive, stream. It is quiet, peaceful. One my way home, I take random streets, and peddle lazily past a few farms. I stop and watch, with childish delight, the sheep chewing on lettuce, the peacocks and geese following after, a short-legged, grey donkey and the talkative chickens lazing in the corners.
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