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Scenes and sounds from a home in Marseille

Scenes and sounds from a home in Marseille

the music and the light and the words and the food

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Harriet Davidson
Nov 21, 2023
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Between blue seas and blue skies sits a city of magic drenched in the light from the sun that warms the city. This city, known for its crazy and its chaos, for me, became a place of absolute calm. A place to take a breath and a place to land. The sounds of the city, the light of the city, the food and its smells, the books and their words; these are what will always define those Marseille days.

The music that will be playing, the feeling of the light, the books that’ll intrigue, the food that you’ll crave and cook — you never know what you'll hear, feel, taste, read until you’re there. And all of these sensory sensations capture that specific moment in time — they tell the story of the city in that moment through its sounds and smells, and they tell the story of you in that moment; what you notice, what sparks something in you, what you crave. Different for everyone, and that’s special.

So here we have scenes and sounds from my Marseille:

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