"If love is a battlefield, I've come armed, prepared to take casualties and give no quarter."
I don't know who said that. It might have been me. heart
You know that song they always use for carnivals is actually gypsy music? I quite like gypsy music. There's a population of some 5000 Romani here in Australia, I've met a few, they're quite nice. There's this old guy who plays violin with a string quartet who call themselves Gypsy Sukaro, they're reaaaaallllllyyyyy goooooooood. I even bought their CD; The Haunting Sounds of Eastern Europe! And then there was that Romani couple we met near Lorne whose handsome son didn't speak English but smiled shyly at us. He had the greenest eyes. They were soft and full of dreams and visions, and so sad and gentle. I'd never seen such eyes. You know, the Romani are actually an ethnic group of Indian origin. S'true. Their stock was mixed with Europeans' in their travels, which leads to the hair and the eyes. And their traditional music takes on the flavour of the country they're in, which gives us the Hungarian Rhapsodies, flamenco, carnival music...
Mmm. Yeah. I'd like to be a gypsy. Travel the world in a brightly-painted wagon or a houseboat, parties every night around a bonfire with music and lots of friends, dancing and singing in a whirl of skirts and flash of earrings. Nothing to bind me, nothing to prove. *sighs* Oh, to be free! Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world!