italy trip, instalment4

Apurr Sonar / July 10th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in italy trip / Tag: , , ,  /
I continue at last my account of our short trip to Italy earlier this year. All these observations were written quite soon after the days to which I refer, but now, when i re-read them, each seems impossibly remote, and one day is blurred into another in my memory. The entry takes up where i last left off – our overnight stay in the medieval town of Mantova. ….

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italy trip 3rd instalment

Apurr Sonar / April 23rd, 2009 / 1 Comment » Posted in italy trip / Tag: ,  /
Menaggio was very quiet, especially at night, and we found it difficult to find anywhere to eat. So we ate at the hotel café, which provided regulation pasta and salad. Breakfast there was also typical of Italy so far—a croissant (or brioche, they call them) with some sugary coating—the ones without sugary coating are called ‘salade’ as far as I can discern, and are meant to contain ham and cheese—a glass of fresh orange juice, a pot of flavoured yoghurt, and either tea or coffee. We liked the café so much, though, we brought down our laptops and stayed there for an hour or so working on preparation for the Bologna seminars, the lake out one window, and the neck-straining snow-capped mountain out the other.



view from the cafe of the hotel du lac, menaggio
view from the cafe of the hotel du lac, menaggio


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italy trip 2nd instalment

Apurr Sonar / April 6th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in italy trip / Tag: ,  /
…the account of our short foray onto italian soil continues hereafter, complete with one or two photos of the passing scenery. this second instalment retells elements recalled from the second day of our stay…

…and now, with the news just coming in regarding in regarding the earthquake in L’Aquila, the details of the extent of the destruction in the middle of Italy, I would like to express my sadness in hearing about it. Although these notes on our journey were written over a month ago, I would like to frame the rest of my instaments with a soppy dedication to all the people we met there who helped us and made us welcome – despite our obvious ignorance in everything we did …

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driving and italy: first impressions old ideas

Apurr Sonar / March 18th, 2009 / 1 Comment » Posted in eldon, italy trip / Tag: , , , ,  /
This challenge of driving in Italy raised in my mind some old ideas regarding car-driving abilities: these fall into three main categories. The first is the actual mechanical manipulation of the vehicle, the aim in this case to become at one with the car, to make the manipulation sub-conscious so that the conscious mind can attend to new information as it arrives.

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off to italy

Apurr Sonar / March 13th, 2009 / No Comments » Posted in eldon, italy trip / Tag: , ,  /
From Helsinki to Italy via Riga and Baltic Air. Up at 5am and planning to go by bus to the main railway station in town, there to transfer to the airport bus, cost €4 each, we decided at 5 to 6 it might be too much trouble and better we walk a little further to the taxi rank and catch a cab the whole way to the airport. So, at 6.25 we walked through a fresh sprinkling of snow over icy bumps to the rank where there were no taxis, P’s fear. But one hove into view almost immediately and we entered and got to the airport in under 30 minutes door to door, for a small price of €27.

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