In Final Story Keiko Nagita ci racconta che Candy vive con il suo amato nei pressi di un fiume Avon. La parola Avon è generica e significa fiume. Normalmente per distinguere di quale Avon si parla gli si affianca un sostantivo. Ma in UK, quanti fiumi Avon ci sono? Io immagino che Candy viva nei pressi di uno dei tre fiumi Avon in Scozia, perché si, in Scozia ci sono ben tre Rivers Avon! Perché la Scozia? Perché è il luogo d’origine del Principe della Collina ed il fiume che da lì passa è potenziamente collegato proprio ad Albert. Albert entra in scena nel romanzo in un luogo che si chiama Lakewood, salva Candy nel fiume, e quei luoghi somigliano molto alla Scozia, la zona che appartiene agli Ardlay. In Scozia dunque c’è tutto affinché Candy e Albert possano trasferirsi e vivere: esiste una villa che viene citata nel romanzo con la sua grande terrazza, così come viene descritta la stessa casa dove Candy abita nel suo presente. Più indizi, sono una prova!

Per maggiori informazioni, un po’ di geografia non guasta mai, potete leggere questa pagina che elenca tutti i fiumi Avon in Gran Bretagna, inclusi i tre fiumi scozzesi di cui riporto anche il testo originale: https://sites.google.com/site/majorriversofthebritishisles/river-avon

RIVER AVON – SCOTLAND

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The longest River Avon in Scotland is the forty mile long river that rises on the foothills of Ben MacDui at Cragganmui and travels for ten miles before entering the remote and isolated Loch Avon, situated three thousand, seven hundred feet up on the Cairngorm Plateau of the Cairngorms National Park.

The river then travels on through the Forest of Glenavon and the Highland villages of Tomintoul, which sits at an altitude of three hundred and forty five meters, and Strathavon, before merging with the River Spey at Ballindalloch in Banffshire.

This River Avon is the longest tributary of Scotland’s River Spey and is considered to be Scotland’s finest salmon river.

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Scotland’s second longest River Avon is a twenty four mile long tributary of the River Clyde, also known as Avon Water. This river rises near the town of Irvine in Ayreshire and flows in a north easterly direction before merging with the River Clyde between the two Lanarkshire towns of Hamilton and Motherwell.

The river flows through part of the five nundred acre, Chatelherault Country Park in South Lanarkshire, famous for the ruins of the sixteenth century, Cadzow Castle, the eighteenth century, Duke of Hamilton’s Hunting Lodge and the brick built viaduct known as the Duke’s Bridge, pictured above.

The river also flows through the villages of Drumclog, Strathavan, Glassford, Stonehouse and Larkhall. The river also passes beneath both the Old Avon footbridge and the M74 Motorway, before merging with the River Clyde just outside Motherwell.

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Scotland’s shortest River Avon rises at Darvel near Cumbernault in Lanarkshire and travels for just eleven miles through the town of Avonbridge, through the special site of scientific interest (SSSI) at Avongorge and part of the one hundred and seventy acre, Muiravonside Country Park near Falkirk, before draining into the Firth of Forth at the former fishing port of Grangemouth on Scotland’s east coast.

The river is spanned by the eight hundred and ten foot long, Avon Aqueduct, pictured above, which was designed by Thomas Telford and built between 1818 and 1822. It is the largest of it’s kind in Scotland and the second largest in Britain. The aqueduct carries the thirty one and a half mile long Union Canal over the River Avon and is located outside the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian.