A Stroll Costs You Nothing, It Gives You Plenty

Give it a try and solve most of your writer’s issues.

Raffaella Ferretti
4 min readDec 30, 2019
By Pxfuel.com

Walking and riding my bike through my town streets is a great pleasure that pampers all my senses. Treviso is a beautiful ancient Italian city, nearby Venice, with red brick walls, classical villas, water mills, rivers, and splendid lush gardens.

The rich vegetation gives the entire town a sweet perfume, very deliciously fragrant. It’s a special wild berry or, maybe, it’s a cherry candy scent, which lingers, more or less intense, in the air. I discovered that the Cherry Laurel bush is the main source of it. It is everywhere, throughout the city and the country.

I am telling about Treviso perfume because, even in this not-so-cold December, I am still happily smelling Cherry Laurel, during my usual saunters.

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I don’t know if creativity is considered one of the sense-tier or not, but walking is encouraging my imagination and I find myself always thinking a lot. Noticing details is a non-stop activity, due to the fact that going much slower than travelling by car, my eyes have plenty of time to freely explore around.

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Raffaella Ferretti

Life always surprises me when I look for direction and measure. Writing poems and stories, Editing respectfully, and Teaching children. In the holistic sphere.