A Soundtrack for Your Dream Tuscan Vacation
A playlist for when you're physically at your desk but spiritually on a terrace in Italy.
Before I went to Sicily three years ago, I put together a playlist that felt like the perfect soundtrack for driving through the winding hills along the island’s northern coast. In my mind, I was in the passenger seat of a gorgeous baby blue Italian car, my head delicately wrapped in a luxurious silk scarf. I couldn’t tell you who was driving in this fantasy, but I knew it wasn’t me, because in this fantasy, I also had a perfect little wine buzz from lunch.
Aside from being tipsy before 3 P.M., none of my Sicilian fantasy came true. So here’s hoping one of you gets to use this playlist as it was intended.
And if you happen to be one of my subscribers in Italy and have a place for me to crash, please get in touch immediately.
"I giardini di Kensington" - Patty Pravo (1973)
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I went record shopping once when I was in Sicily. I bought this record! This is a cover of “Walk On The Wild Side” by Lou Reed.
"La voglia, la pazzia" - Ornella Vanoni, Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes (1976)
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