I can't believe it is exactly 3 months since I last had time to write a post here. It has been a mad mad year for busy-ness, one which I do not want to repeat for a while. I have just emerged though, having on Thursday evening had the launch party for the Festschrift volume I was editing in all my available spare time over the last few years, which was a triumphant and lovely evening; before that, I was in Pisa and Florence at the end of last week, giving the last of the conference papers I had signed up for this year, all on totally different subjects of course, each requiring new research which I had to scrabble to do in amongst everything else (oh, and on top of the busy day job!). So having written 4 papers, 4 articles (one of which has even been published already!), edited one (huge) book and begun the work on guest-editing a journal issue already in the last 6 months, I am feeling pretty exhausted!! So here's to the new resolution to say 'no' to absolutely everything else that comes along, with varying degrees of success already.
So the relaxing starts here - we have some friends from afar coming to stay over the next few weeks and it will be wonderful to see them. We are also (belatedly) starting to plan our Olympic Escape - to walk Hadrian's Wall, from west to east. More on that another day. Though it doesn't actually stop - K is at this moment preparing for a job interview on Wednesday. Keep everything crossed!
But I have wanted for a while to share with you these photos I took in the Ballaró market in Palermo, when we had our week's holiday in Sicily in April, after the end of one of my conferences. It was totally fantastic - we saw and experienced so so much (the food!), though as one friend observed, it was a bit of a busman's holiday. But with our ever-growing love of Brixton Market, we very much appreciated the sights and smells of this Saturday morning food market in downtown Palermo, where the vegetables and fruit were huge and their colours intense! I loved how they were grouped by colour, so tomatoes and strawberries were side by side. It was also amazing to see the tuna guy butchering a whole carcase which had probably started out about the same size as him! (I don't have photos but I also ate some delicious big and juicy cherries bought in Florence's Mercato Centrale last Friday - I love markets as you can see!)
So, here is a little photographic tour of Ballaró market, a feast for all the senses. And I will try to be a better correspondent from this point on...
So the relaxing starts here - we have some friends from afar coming to stay over the next few weeks and it will be wonderful to see them. We are also (belatedly) starting to plan our Olympic Escape - to walk Hadrian's Wall, from west to east. More on that another day. Though it doesn't actually stop - K is at this moment preparing for a job interview on Wednesday. Keep everything crossed!
But I have wanted for a while to share with you these photos I took in the Ballaró market in Palermo, when we had our week's holiday in Sicily in April, after the end of one of my conferences. It was totally fantastic - we saw and experienced so so much (the food!), though as one friend observed, it was a bit of a busman's holiday. But with our ever-growing love of Brixton Market, we very much appreciated the sights and smells of this Saturday morning food market in downtown Palermo, where the vegetables and fruit were huge and their colours intense! I loved how they were grouped by colour, so tomatoes and strawberries were side by side. It was also amazing to see the tuna guy butchering a whole carcase which had probably started out about the same size as him! (I don't have photos but I also ate some delicious big and juicy cherries bought in Florence's Mercato Centrale last Friday - I love markets as you can see!)
So, here is a little photographic tour of Ballaró market, a feast for all the senses. And I will try to be a better correspondent from this point on...
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