Description:

This is the first of a series of short stories about the travels, adventures and works of Costa, a retired sailor now dedicated to the exciting life of cooking simple and delicious meals, painting and drawing, and meeting mysterious women. For many years the ideas for my stories came from magazine and newspaper articles and photographs, and also from pictures I took myself. I would sometimes make sketches of people and places, but the photographs would always be more inspiring. This sort of travelogue gives finally place to them, the drawings having in these stories just a supporting role.