Oh yes, it does! That trip with my mother to Tuscany, and the earlier trip with my parents and Sphinx (in pre-Phia times, even!) to Sorrento and Naples and all that entails do influence my playing Teja a great lot.

There's one light and fluffy thread with Yrael, even, that's mostly just about the Tuscan landscape, and not much else, and completely lives from what I saw while looking out of the train window on our trip to and from Siena, while we were in Florence...