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MATTHEW BELL / WRITER ‘I had to pinch myself four years ago, when I realised I was living in Florence and making a living from putting one word after another,’ says Matthew. His mother grew up in Buenos Aires and met his English father in Paris, where they lived for some years before the family moved to Oxford, so exploring new places has always been second nature to Matthew. He spent his twenties working for various publications, including Tatler, but enjoys the autonomy of freelance work. This month, he writes about Chioggia (pages 150-151): ‘Wherever I went, people insisted on buying me a glass of wine, telling me a story or singing me Venetian sea shanties.’ If you could travel to anywhere in the world now, where would you want to be? ‘On…
