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All Saints at the Monumental Cemetery

Italy
This week the big cemetery, Turin’s Cimiterio Monumentale, has been positively bustling. The carpark is packed and florists are touting their wares in little...
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All Saints at the Monumental Cemetery

Italy
This week the big cemetery, Turin’s Cimiterio Monumentale, has been positively bustling. The carpark is packed and florists are touting their wares in little...
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Turin in Ten Writers

Fiction
One of the things I like about Turin is that it's just so gosh-darned literary. In 1933 it  is the birthplace of the (now...
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A Twenty Days of Turin Tour

Fiction
Today it was rainy and misty in Turin, with a creeping sense of gloom. In short, it was perfect weather to view some of...
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Trying the Very Trying Trail Vallee de Joux

Running
This Saturday I was in Le Sentier to pick up my bib for my first ultramarathon, the Trail Vallee de Joux (85km). As John...
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Wandering in the Garden of Time

Europe
Yesterday, early in the morning, we headed to Porta Susa station to catch a train to Switzerland.  As we headed for the border, the landscape...
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Sekhmet in Piedmont

Italy
Ancient Egypt is hard. There are too many dynasties. The Book of the Dead has a promising title but there is no clear plot....
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Cat on a Cold Tin Roof by Talia Marshall

Essay
One night, after our kids are in bed I make Kerry, my oldest friend, watch Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid with me. I...
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Jolly Shoes and Tiramisu

Italy
The other day I had to make a trip to Jolly Sports Shop. I have a scary race coming up and needed new running...
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The Trials of Trail 27

Italy
Sunday is my ‘long-run day’, and when in Turin, it’s the day I go up and over the one big hill close to the...
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Turin’s Big Brains and Deviant Apples

Italy
The other day I had an hour to kill in Turin’s Crocetta district, so I went to three museums in the same building—the “Luigi...
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Lost Cats and State Secrets in Vermont

Americas
“But…we’re in the middle of nowhere!” It was not the first time John had said those words nor would it be the last. The bus...
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