Tag Archives: Fall

Licensed to Ill: driving your teenage roads, twelve years on.

Posted on November 27, 2016 by

Unlike many of my peers, I wasn’t given a car as a birthday present when I turned 18. Publicly I was saying I didn’t want it but I knew it was a case of fox and grapes with a numberplate, … Continue reading →

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Before I move on: fragments of Kyoto.

Posted on January 1, 2016 by

New Year’s Eve, at the office, is a quiet one. For a starter, only half of the people who usually crowd the open space actually bothers to turn up, giving the place a library-like atmosphere which, personally, I like a … Continue reading →

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A rowing regatta

Posted on November 10, 2015 by

The stretch of the Po river that flows past the city of Turin, in Northwest Italy, is normally quiet: a few rowers, two boats doing a sort of public shuttle service, countless ducks and swans. This weekend, though, things were … Continue reading →

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