“Funny side note: the other card we received, “What mistakes did you make last time?” was weirdly applicable as the only reason I made this train on time was from having learned my lesson about the timeliness of Swiss transportation by missing both a bus AND a train by mere seconds. Ouch. Train says it’ll leave at 9:44am? That’s when it leaves, no margin for error!”
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
