Tag: travel

January 24, 2019

Mongolia 2018: Under the eternal blue sky

It wasn't a very long drive out of the city, through sternly majestic landscapes under the eye-watering, bright cornflower-blue infinite vastness of the heavens. A wild eagle would occasionally flap overhead, and you could glimpse herds of galloping horses and placidly grazing yaks.

December 3, 2018

Arrivederci, Torino

This little town is quite unremarkable, really; about the most exciting thing it's known for is its annual reenactment of the Battaglia della Marsaglia, which the locals carry out every September with great vigor and panache. Though goodness knows why they would choose to remember a battle which they decisively lost to the French.

November 25, 2018

Left my heart in Torino – 5

Good magic, bad magic, and just the normal sort of every day magic

November 11, 2018

Left my heart in Torino – 4

A genie’s-eye view of Turin

November 3, 2018

Left my heart in Torino – 3

Italy does spoil a person so in plenty of imperceptible ways, even if one must always be on the lookout for errant little cars that are likely to run one over. 

October 28, 2018

Birthday thoughts

Here we go again.  Much like Paris in 2017, Kyoto was not where I thought my actual birthday would be.

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