Monthly Archives: August 2007

Fire in the sky-ai-ai (part one)

Posted on August 31, 2007 by

Over the top of the pass and not so far away Wagner and his brand of booted thunder is waiting: this morning’s storm is just a reminder of things to come. What is less predictable is that Cha Cha Cha … Continue reading →

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Cha Cha Cha…changes

Posted on August 30, 2007 by

The hills are alive with the sound of thunder, lightning, not very frightening – but a few of the “Freddy” moustaches are. (They are Swiss or German – sure aren’t Italian this year). San Pellegrino makes a sparkling debut after … Continue reading →

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Re Boot – now just for walking

Posted on August 29, 2007 by

Up into the hill villages on the way to the Splunga pass, Switzerland and beyond. I am at last Tom, because the Apple is not booting up, and Genius Bars are few and far between. In fact the closest one … Continue reading →

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Apple and Moleskine not Compatible

Posted on August 28, 2007 by

The laptop is very poorly, and that makes posting a little difficult. It’s all going down on paper: pencil and the Moleskine, the red hot blogging tools. Hope to find computer doctor shortly.

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Irene Grandi – Bruci La Città

Posted on August 21, 2007 by

This song is everywhere in Italy…

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Tommy in Venice (I)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by

“…The first place of Venice that was inhabited, is that which now they call the Rialto, which word is derived from rivus altus, that is, a deep river, because the water is deeper there then about other Islands. And the … Continue reading →

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Is the Earth More Free?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by

“…Watch the manoeuvres of the week-end hikersMassed on parade with Kodaks or with Leicas…”Letter to Lord Byron At the beginning of this trip I wrote of W.H. Auden’s poem, “Dover” which caught so well the essential nature of Kent’s port … Continue reading →

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Venice: Had ’em all

Posted on August 14, 2007 by

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices…”Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile If you type “Venice, Loneliness” into the database at the British Library there is one result: Leo Damrosch’s fantastic biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. If you … Continue reading →

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Guess Where

Posted on August 13, 2007 by
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The sons of their fathers

Posted on August 13, 2007 by

“The only way you know you’re not in Italy, not in Venice, when you’re at The Venetian hotel [in Las Vegas]? Easy. The water is blue, not that muddy brown green of Venice, and the Gondoliers are black.” In Padua … Continue reading →

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