What is most atmospheric city you've ever been in?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:57 pmWhat is most atmospheric city you've ever been in?
That you feel leaden down by history, maybe spirits?
I don't have especially great experience, but London kills me, especially down by the river, particularly around Limehouse etc. Conrad put it so exquisitively:
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend[3], and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth."
Maybe Paris has same vibe, I dunno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auOBhaXEDvA
That you feel leaden down by history, maybe spirits?
I don't have especially great experience, but London kills me, especially down by the river, particularly around Limehouse etc. Conrad put it so exquisitively:
"The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend[3], and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth."
Maybe Paris has same vibe, I dunno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auOBhaXEDvA