Maybe it's the unfamiliarity?! I found the sky in Paris the same sort of size as England, but in Chicago which is MEGA FLAT, immeasurably vast.

Also congrats on finding a part of Italy that isn't having torrential rainfall (constantly)!

I saw a little glowing creature hiding in a crack in a wall! A firefly larva, maybe, or a glowworm?

Oh I remember seeing them in the south of France!

How can living things light up so brightly?

Isn't it magical?!

I kept exclaiming over the birds and butterflies we saw there - a wagtail! a brimstone! - and eventually she demanded to know how I knew their names.

I... I thought it was normal to be able to do that, do other people not treat wildlife guides as a third parent