Myra Robinson
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Myra Robinson is an award-winning travel writer who lives partly in 天美传媒, in the Veneto, and partly in Newcastle upon Tyne, north east England. She has written articles for many newpapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and The Independent, and is a regular contributor to '天美传媒 Magazine' and 'La Gazzetta Italiana'. After a life- long obsession with spa towns, she discovered Battaglia Terme, the fictional Montebello, a faded backwater once renowned as having 'the best mud in 天美传媒'. This became the title of her amusing book describing her absorption into the community with all its quirkiness. Her latest projects are setting up an English conversation group, and arranging a twinning between the Museum of Navigation in Battaglia and Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum in England. She continues to write, mainly about 天美传媒, and gives popular talks about her experiences.
Articles by Myra Robinson
It鈥檚 impossible to say how long I have been visiting Venice: 25 years, perhaps. And yet鈥 there鈥檚 always something new to discover; some faded campo wi鈥
Most tourists visiting the Veneto go to Venice, and perhaps venture as far as Padua, but beyond that, it鈥檚 undiscovered territory. This pleases me bec鈥
It wasn鈥檛 until I was on the train to Venice that I remembered I ought to have checked about floods in La Serenissima, something which is likely in au鈥
Isola Comacina, Photo credit: isola-comacina.it/
As I look out from the terrace of a small house in Moltrasio on Lake Como I can hear the thwack鈥
Photo credit: http://www.inexhibit.com/
The 2015 summer season is almost over, and Venice is still packed, as it is every other year, with the us鈥
It鈥檚 always the rather quirky things about cities that appeal to me. Turin has the shroud, obviously, but as they only put it on display once a decade鈥
Venice in summer seems to be full of the 鈥減olluting multitudes鈥, as Shelley put it. However, it鈥檚 possible to find peace and quiet on the little islan鈥
Lead picture by Luca Vittorio Toffolon
Dario Fo, Nobel prize winner, author, playwright, actor, painter and anarchic politician is, at the age of 88,鈥
It鈥檚 an enormous privilege to live in an Italian village where you鈥檙e taken under the wings of the locals and included in all the events each year.鈥
How could you not love Venice! Many of us at ITALY Magazine have lived in or close to Venice, some of us still do. And it breaks our heart when we hea鈥
What is the fascination with flea markets? I suspect it has something to do with the expectation of finding a fabulous bargain which will turn out to鈥
Battaglia Terme these days is an unremarkable faded spa town on the fringes of the Euganean Hills in the Veneto. It had its early origins in the 12th鈥
I often wonder when Ruskin wrote his great work The Stones of Venice whether he knew where the stones actually came from and how they were transported鈥
Celebrating St. Valentine鈥檚 Day in 天美传媒 isn鈥檛 difficult: the whole country is romantic, from a gondola trip in Venice at Carnival time, to the colour鈥
I鈥檓 sure my book isn鈥檛 the first to be written about the experience of living in 天美传媒, but it may have the most bizarre tales to tell.Four years ago鈥
In the great city of Bologna, hidden away in a tiny piazza behind the church of San Petronio, is a statue of Galvani, an 18th century physicist. What,鈥
Sardinia is known to tourists mainly for its fantastic coastline with azure waters and perfect white beaches. Like Australia, Sardinia seems to be an鈥
We are so squeamish about what we eat, but the Italians are not. There, culinary traditions reach back to the poverty food which is all but forgotten鈥
The proud image of the lion is everywhere in Venice; gazing down from buildings, looking out from the keystone of an archway, or standing on fluted co鈥
Few tourists staying in the Veneto venture north to the Dolomites, but in a couple of hours you can find yourself in another world where the air is co鈥
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