Monthly Archives: June 2007

She drank a great Campari and drove a Red Ferrari…(Song lyrics that failed)

Posted on June 16, 2007 by robhunt510

The poster in the window of a comic-book store is enough to end my self-imposed exhibition purdah. A black and white photograph from the 1950s of a woman sitting on the bonnet of a Ferrari. The image is promoting “Ferrari … Continue reading →

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Business Travels

Posted on June 16, 2007 by robhunt510

The Turin rail station, the Porta Nuova, is a sea of rubbish; the computer is down at the tourist kiosk, “because of all the construction – here’s the photo-copy”, and outside building works are beached on every corner, including the … Continue reading →

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Rude Rivoli

Posted on June 15, 2007 by robhunt510

There is a great hill top palace, Napoleon was here – the Corso Francia goes Roman Straight for Turin. There is a lovely old town, hilly and rambling, full of art galleries and bookshops with glossy interior decorating coffee-tablers. The … Continue reading →

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Over the Top

Posted on June 15, 2007 by robhunt510

There are 100 ski resorts in the Val Cenis – which is west of Chambéry and heading for the Alps and Italy. In Mondane there are posters: it is the regions 40th birthday. Happy birthday piste n’ pissed. Mondane is … Continue reading →

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Chambéry, natural high, smoke and mirrors?

Posted on June 15, 2007 by robhunt510

The Road to Rousseau “Chambéry had been blandly pleasant – the first graffiti less town I’d visited, sharp air, even a bit of history in Coryate’s revelation that it was once home to the Turin shroud.” Continental Drifter, Tim Moore. … Continue reading →

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Italie!

Posted on June 14, 2007 by robhunt510

I am five posts behind, but here is a vision of the first Italian city, Turin. Just five minutes of first things. There is still Rousseau, Trompe L’oeuil, Dukes of Savoy, Hazard, Mont Cenis…The Age of No Wireless Anxiety.

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Ways of Travel

Posted on June 14, 2007 by robhunt510
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Crossings

Posted on June 14, 2007 by robhunt510

There are a lot like this: when my internet calm returns, I will post the better ones Alois is 52, he lives in the south of Slovenia, a village that has been Italian and Yugoslav; now it is Slovenia again. … Continue reading →

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It happens at borders

Posted on June 14, 2007 by robhunt510

On her way to Naples and another world Sanji is 34, but looks younger. “How come you stayed so calm when the one girl took one hour to buy a ticket?” she says. “It wasn’t a purchase it was an … Continue reading →

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Tryptich

Posted on June 14, 2007 by robhunt510

More when I recover from the uplifting moment not of crossing the Alps, but finding the internet again…

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