Claudio Piombetti's blog, archived articles for 10/2010
More rugby pictures
Another few pictures from the VII Torino Rugby-San Mauro match of the past weekend. Keep your eyes on the ball Like...
My first Oval Ball Weekend: VII Rugby Torino vs San Mauro
The first time I watched a Six Nations match on tv was around 1982, and back then that rugby competition was still known as the Five Nations. The first time I watched an NFL match on TV was in the early 1980s, and the Oakland Raiders were playing with Jim Plunkett as quarterback. American football has been one of the enduring passion of my life, and rugby is a sport I appreciate a lot. And up to the past weekend I had never seen a live rugby match or a live American football match,...
Harvest time in Andezeno
This weekend, hills and valleys around Turin seem to be blossoming with food and wine: wherever you turn your head there's a food festival, a wine-tasting event, a polenta party, and we are not even in bagna cauda/chestnuts season! Having too many choices usually leads to not taking a decision: today the main options were a wine event in Andezeno, in the hills near Chieri, or a food festival in my own town, Settimo Torinese. The sky was gloomy and rain was expected, so we drove...
In Maglione, even road signs are artistic
A series of road signs in Maglione, a small hilltown in Piedmont, Italy. The rest of the town is quite artistic as...