{"id":2487,"date":"2016-08-31T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T08:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2018-10-20T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:48:10","slug":"why-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/why-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Why London?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when I visited London for the first time, I felt something deep inside me. A nostalgic and melancholic sensation. It was strange, I had never been there before, but I felt as if I had returned home after a far-away life. London, London. A close friend of mine maintains that in a previous life I had made my existence in that city, <em>the<\/em> city, <em>the<\/em> metropolis, <em>the<\/em> centre of the world. However I&#8217;m not sure that I lived a happy life, because often nostalgia merges w<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2483 size-full alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra.jpg\" alt=\"londra\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra.jpg 500w, https:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/francescacay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/londra-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>ith an overwhelming loneliness. Writing about, talking about, looking at old photographs, searching for online information, bring those first sensations back to me. Who knows who I was, man, woman, animal, poor, rich, illiterate, educated&#8230; if I had lived in one of those lovely Victorian houses with soft carpets caressing my feet.<\/p>\n<p>If I concentrate and close my eyes I can smell London. If I suddenly woke up blindfolded in any one of its&#8217; streets I couldn&#8217;t be mistaken, I would know it by its smell. Every city has its own. For example Cagliari welcomes you with the smell of wind, Rome with its dusty smell of travertine. And London&#8230; is a mix of spices, humidity, water and the tube.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to go back, I like fantasizing about a future transfer, every so often I suffer looking at flats to rent or buy near Hyde Park, Soho, Camden and Fitzrovia. I certainly couldn&#8217;t ever afford it, but at the moment dreams are free. Making Kaede and Rey live in the places I love is part of the dream. I made them walk, eat, drink, breathe in those places which will always remain embedded in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please London, don&#8217;t go away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when I visited London for the first time, I felt something deep inside me. A nostalgic and melancholic sensation. It was strange, I<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescacay.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}