Tag Archives: Turin

Decameron Day 2.

Posted on 26/03/2020 by awtytravels

E incomincia la seconda, nella quale, sotto il reggimento di Filomena, si ragiona di chi, da diverse cose infestato, sia oltre alla sua speranza riuscito a lieto fine. It doesn’t often happen to be able to fit in a quote … Continue reading →

Posted in Decameron, Odd ones out | Tagged Andreuccio, Bergamo, Day 2, Decameron, Degree, Edinburgh, Graduation, Interpol, MBA, Milan, Red Hot Chili Pipers, Scotland, Snow, St Andrews, Stansted, Turin, University | 24 Comments

Travels in Italy’s 11th most-visited region.

Posted on 06/10/2019 by awtytravels

There are twenty regions in Italy (or perhaps it’s only 19; Molise’s existence, much like dark matter, is still a matter for debate); together in 2018 they hosted a whopping 429 million tourists, half of them foreigners (of whom at … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Italy, Piemonte | Tagged Alba, Alps, Art, Asti, Autumn, Barbaresco, Barbera, Barolo, Belvedere, Beppe Fenoglio, Biella, Cattle, Cuneo, DOC, DOCG, Dogliani, Europe, Granda, Hills, Horse, horses, Italia, Italy, La Morra, Langhe, Llama, Mare, Modern Art, Monforte d'Alba, Montezemolo, Mountains, Occitania, Piedmont, Piemont, Piemonte, Prealps, Roero, Stallion, Torino, Tourism, Turin, Wine, Winery | 17 Comments

In memory of Mr Voghera.

Posted on 15/03/2018 by awtytravels

We’d parked our car in corso Matteotti. Under a fastidious rain we walked, rather aimlessly, towards via Roma. My feeling of despondency, due to the realisation that I’d started forgetting the streets of a city I’d lived in for five … Continue reading →

Posted in Italy, Piemonte, Random memories | Tagged Armistice, Auschwitz, Benito Mussolini, Bolzano, corso Matteotti, Day of Memory, Deportation, Fascism, Ferruccio Voghera, Final solution, Fossoli, Gino Voghera, Gunter Demnig, Holocaust, Italian Jews, Italy, Jews, Memory, Nazism, Piedmont, Piemont, Piemonte, Racial Laws in Italy, Racism, San Sabba, Shoah, Stolperstein, Torino, Trieste, Turin, WWII | 25 Comments

Modern art

Posted on 14/07/2016 by awtytravels

I don’t often go to modern art fairs, mainly because I don’t get it at all, and I have a tendency to express scorn and not-so-educated scathing comments out loud when everyone else is silent (it’s a family gift, Dad … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Italy, Piemonte | Tagged Art, Arte, Italia, Italy, Paratissima, Piedmont, Piemonte, Torino, Turin | 8 Comments

A rowing regatta

Posted on 10/11/2015 by awtytravels

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 →

Posted in Europe, Italy, Piemonte | Tagged Autumn, Europe, Fall, Italia, Italy, Piedmont, Piemonte, Po river, Rowing, Torino, Turin, Valentino | 2 Comments

Memories of a place I’m missing

Posted on 08/03/2015 by awtytravels

Surfing through the Internet a little ago, I found out that a gigantic (well, at least for Italian standards) skyscraper has mushroomed out of a disused industrial area in Torino, Italy. The area, known as ex Fiat Avio (Fiat Avio, an aerospace … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Italy, Piemonte, Random memories | Tagged 2006 Winter Olympics, Decay, Italia, Italy, Lingotto, Millefonti, Renzo Piano, Santa Rita, Torino, Turin | Leave a comment

Songs for the Road 4 – A slightly introspective Christmas

Posted on 18/12/2014 by awtytravels

This year will be an odd Christmas, at least for me. In the last 12 months, in facts, my biological family has shrunk – through deaths and inheritance-caused greed – from 8 members to two, my brother and father. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Music review, Reflections | Tagged African Blues, Ali Farka Touré, Apparat, Blues, djembe, Electronica, Ellen Allien, IBM, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Movement, Music, music review, Orchestra of Bubbles, Remix, Songs for the road, Techno, Tennis, Turin | Leave a comment

Seeing an old friend (four years after and 30,000 ft. from above)

Posted on 25/11/2014 by awtytravels

It was the faithful companion of many a sunset in Turin for over six years. We lived always in the same place, a rather nondescript tenament in the southern Santa Rita borough, one of those neighbourhoods that had popped up … Continue reading →

Posted in Italy, Overlooked locations, Piemonte, Random memories, The pleasure of flying, The world from above | Tagged Alpi, Alps, Cuneo, Flight, Flying, Italy, Monviso, Mountains, Piedmont, The world from above, Torino, Turin, Winter | Leave a comment