Hemingway Adventure (1999) (16 page)
Barone Alberto Franchetti looking out from his family palazzo on the Grand Canal, where parking is a problem at carnival time.
Duck-shooting in the marshes east of Venice. Clear skies and frozen water as we leave the hunting lodge at first light. Later in a barrel with the Barone. Most ducks ignored us.
A farmhouse in the flatlands of the Piave valley at Fossalta.
An apartment near the rue Mouffetard was Ernest and Hadley Hemingway’s first real home in Paris in 1922.
Hemingway’s passport.
The Lost Generation: Hemingway and the circle of ex-pat friends he immortalised in
The Sun Also Rises
.
Climbing the stairs to Hemingway’s first apartment.
Cezanne, another great influence on Hemingway’s writing.
Shakespeare and Company, Valhalla for book lovers. George Whitman believes in total literary immersion, including sleeping accommodation amongst the shelves, Sunday tea and Christmas Day opening.
La Closerie des Lilas was one of Hemingway’s favourite places to drink and write.
