Cold wind roars from the North. One wants to draw their scarf over their head. The old houses by the port of Honfleur draw up a line huddling together to protect from the wind. With their facades in colour, they remind elementary school students preparing […]
All posts tagged: March

The harlequin town of Crespi D’adda
The first image emerging in my mind before the term factory town used to have much in common with a hostile location, ghost streets, unhappiness. The Italian workers village Crespi D’adda managed to break these personal myths of mine. Crespi D’adda was built in the […]

Istanbul’s Streets, Bridges, Hills and Squares
I remember reading Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, cuddled in bed in the cosy apartment of our kind host Matyás when my friend Visha and I just moved to Szeged. Turning page after page in those sunny autumn mornings I was taking a storytelling […]

Urban poetry: city from above (2)
The list of favourite spots around the green areas of the Milano brought me to Torre Branca, located in the north-east part of Parco Sempione. The 108,6 m high tower was designed by architect Gio Ponti and was open to public back in 1933 as […]

Carnevale di Viareggio
First time I visit Viareggio was back in March of 2011 when the carnival just have finished and streets were still covered with colourful paper flakes like a snow of joy. Three years later in March I had the chance to witness for the first […]