Would you book a trip with this travel guide?! 😄 It’s the 1970s, I’m about six, tooth missing and have been raiding the ‘dress up box’ again. (Dad had these posters for his Italian night class he taught.) Who’d have thought I’d end up in Calabria myself one day seeing Nanna Francesca’s birth town or that I’d even write about it.
By this age I happened to be already writing down little stories in old exercise books (that I still have!) It’s funny to flick through them now. I feel a mixture of self-consciousness, nostalgia and also incredulity that a child put in so much time writing stories on top of homework.
I also loved delving into the ‘dress up box’ of old clothes from my parents, grandma or aunts and acting out games, perhaps not even realising this too was creating stories of sorts. We didn’t have a lot of money and I guess it was a cheap way make up games but I loved it so much and I really hope there are kids out there that are still enjoying playing ‘dress ups’ at home.
You just never know where it might lead! 😘✈️🍝
Zoë Boccabella 