Slow on purpose

I don’t think I can legitimately write that I am “on vacation”, given that the state of being on vacation presupposes another activity – often work-related – from which we have stepped away for a period of time, however long. But anyway: I fled the heatwave of the Padan Plain (and most of Europe) to spend a week in the Prealps, a place I could never truly leave, having grown up there. I’ve been to…