a second, cooler (anything) is always a great tagline

[cimorene]

Earlier this week I dreamed that Turku had a second, cooler castle near downtown. In the dream I suddenly remembered that I would like to go there again. There was a big courtyard café with a radiotelemetry dish above it, and an indoor playground for children with miniaturized versions of bits of the castle, and a large gift shop practically overflowing with stacked displays of plushy castles.

Seeing them, I immediately remembered that I had been seeing them everywhere around town recently, and said "Oh, this is where people are getting them!"

They didn't look like the castle we were in - which was rectangular, made of yellow stone or brick - and they didn't look like the real Turku Castle, which is plastered white on the outside and sprawling. Instead they were dark gray cylindrical towers with crenellated tops and little windows embroidered around them, about the size of a small cat.

I was thinking that I wanted one when I woke up, even though I didn't know what I'd do with it. And then as I did wake up, I thought excitedly that we should go there and was very sad to remember that it wasn't real.

Turku doesn't have any other castles, but the art museum is a national romantic art nouveau granite palace on a hill, built 1904. It isn't golden, it's pink; but parts of the dream setting were borrowed from it.

Comments

[barbaratp]

My darling senti aqui a sua tristeza ao perceber que tudo fora um sonho, pareceu tão legal. Não conheço no entanto esse castelo, mas sua descrição mesmo em sonho sobre um segundo castelo parece algo que eu gostaria de visitar (deveria haver algo assim por aí não é mesmo?) E o único existente também é claro.