One month, one carry-on case, two countries, five cities, 25 degrees Celsius and sunny to thunderstorms to walking home after dinner when the thermometer’s dropped to 8C. So far it’s worked well, with only one embarrassing wardrobe malfunction . . . click through to read and see more.
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Wifi is still elusive here, but I’ve managed to scrawl a few postcards to send you. Click through to learn about these bulls to be spotted all over Turin, and to see some of the city’s architectural and alimentary delights.
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We’re no longer in Paris (took the train to Turin for a few days, now we’re in a seaside town near Rome), but I’m sending you a few postcards of windows I admired there. On lèche les vitrines!
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Yesterday, in the (Paris) Pompidou Centre’s exhibition of Alice Neel’s important and startling and often subversive work, I snapped a photo of this portrait of her, at 80, by Robert Mapplethorpe. I think his portrait offers itself as an intriguing counterpoint to an email conversation I had with a blog reader, an epistolary extension of the space I’m trying to clear here for chatting among ourselves about Women + Age + Sexuality. Click through to read more.
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Just before we leave for the airport, a quick post on What Didn’t Go Into my Carry-On, but I’ve enjoyed wearing lately as the weather’s cooled. In fact, though, a couple of OOTDs did make it into my travel wardrobe. Click through to see whether this (bulky!) boiler suit was one of them. . .
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