Myra Robinson
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Myra Robinson is an award-winning travel writer who lives partly in Italy, 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 'Italy 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 Italy'. 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 Italy, and gives popular talks about her experiences.
Articles by Myra Robinson
Tue, 11/17/2015 - 02:34
It wasn’t 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…
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 01:59
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 of te…
Wed, 09/09/2015 - 06:02
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 usual p…
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 11:00
It’s 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…
Wed, 09/17/2014 - 03:00
Venice in summer seems to be full of the “polluting multitudes”, as Shelley put it. However, it’s possible to find peace and quiet on the little islan…
Mon, 07/28/2014 - 10:26
Lead picture by Luca Vittorio Toffolon
Dario Fo, Nobel prize winner, author, playwright, actor, painter and anarchic politician is, at the age of 88,…
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 06:32
It’s an enormous privilege to live in an Italian village where you’re taken under the wings of the locals and included in all the events each year. …
Sat, 09/21/2013 - 09:18
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…
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 07:00
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…
Wed, 12/12/2012 - 10:17
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…
Wed, 10/24/2012 - 09:52
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…
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 04:17
Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day in Italy isn’t difficult: the whole country is romantic, from a gondola trip in Venice at Carnival time, to the colour…
Fri, 11/25/2011 - 08:44
I’m sure my book isn’t the first to be written about the experience of living in Italy, but it may have the most bizarre tales to tell.Four years ago…
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 06:40
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,…
Fri, 09/30/2011 - 05:53
Sardinia is known to tourists mainly for its fantastic coastline with azure waters and perfect white beaches. Like Australia, Sardinia seems to be an…
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 09:19
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…
Thu, 07/14/2011 - 04:49
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…
Fri, 05/20/2011 - 05:13
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…
Thu, 04/07/2011 - 03:37
It’s an unlikely sight as you approach the Euganean Hills (in the Veneto region) when driving eastwards across the endlessly flat plain of northern It…
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