This song has always made me envious over the place, the moment and the experience that Zach Condon recounted for us. Every Beirut song is like an entry inside a travel journal. The kind that pulls you right back in the moment. “Postcards from Italy” did it by way of trumpet, ukulele and Zach Condon’s vagabond vocal delivery. It went somewhere far beyond the tourist traps and allowed our imaginations to discover places we never knew existed.

“The times we had, oh, when the wind would blow with rain and snow were not all bad. We put our feet just where they had, had to go, never to go.”