The Rain Is Back

 The rain is back again....

The current situation seems to forecast that we are going to have a wet weekend.

Let's hope that next week there will be fine weather, and finally we can begin to enjoy Spring.

Location : Via Lagrange

2021 First Photo Set

The rain, the cold and the Covid have discouraged me from going out for some photo shoot, or just that I am getting lazy.

Anyway, got a new len as Christmas gift finally did push me to get out and shoot something.

 

Here are some photos made in front of the shopping center, Rinascente with its huge lighted front displaying wishes for the New Year.

 

Let's hope 2021 is a better year than 2020.

Location : Rinascente Torino

Lockdown Fifty-Third Day

53rd day. Friday, Labour day. First time in Italy that there were no celebration, no march on Labour day. Instead, the town was pretty quiet and deserted.
The weather was overcast, heavy clouds were covering the sky for most of the day, so people were not so much encouraged to go out and also we are still in a lockdown.

During these more than 50 days of confinement, perhaps I had gone out once every week, each time I was out, I noticed that there were still some  homeless hanging around.
Usually, they were alone in the piazza, or on the bench by the street or even in the garden.
Saw one sitting alone on a bench in the center of via Lagrange, trying to get some alms, unfortunately the street was pretty empty.
One was sitting alone on the bench in piazza Carignano, he seemed to be rather relax and enjoying the sun and the peace with almost no one else around.
The last one I saw was at the small garden beside piazza IV Maggio. He was lying on the foot of the statue in the garden, maybe enjoying the warmth from the sun. By the way, he was breaking the restrictions of the lockdown by entering into the garden, there was tape fencing the garden's entrance.

There were some who used to be around in some fixed location, but they seem to have disappeared.

Lets hope they are being taken care of, at least protected from the virus in one way or the other.

Location : via Lagrange/Piazza Carignano/Piazza IV Maggio

CDP May Theme : Shopping

The May Theme is Shopping. the only shopping we do in these days is getting groceries or medicines.

 

Only supemarket like Pam, Carrefour etc are opened and small stores own by the indians or pakistanis which back home in Singapore we called them Mama shop, these stores have been opening up all over the place in recent years, even in the center where the rent is not cheap, just wonder where did they get the funding from?

Big shopping complex like the Rinascente in Via Lagrange is closed, so no shopping, we are in a lockdown

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Lockdown The Forty-Seventh Day

47 day. Saturday. Although in these few days, especially on Saturday, it seems that more people were out on the streets, perhaps they really withstand any longer staying home the whole day, but I still choose to stay home.

'Eataly' is a well-known chain restaurant that mainly promotes local food. There is a branch on Lagrange Street where you can dine inside or outside the restaurant. The other day when I was in Lagrange street, saw that the tables and chairs for dining outdoor were still there, but of course nobody was occupying any seat.

Normally, on Friday and weekends or holidays, tourist's hot spot like the Eyptian Museum has long queue waiting outside at the entrance. On some particular Friday, when there was reduced price and guided tour, the queue could go up to two blocks long.

Now the museum is temporary closed for visiting, I'm afraid that the mummies and the people will have to spend more time being apart.

After the Eypptian Museum, I headed towards piazza Carignano again, the McDonald next to the piazza was empty, not sure if it still serves take away, but the usual crowd of riders waiting outside to collect their orders wasn't there.

Under the normally very busy and crowded arcades on both sides of the entrance, all shops were closed, and the place was dim and not a single soul around, it looked rather sad and uneasy.

Location : Museo Egizio/piazza carignano/Via Lagrange

Lockdown The Forty-Sixth Day

46th day. Friday, was still sunny.
Seemed to have more peoples and more cars on the street, perhaps they had started the lockdown phase 2 by themselves.

The day after I came out from the supermarket, instead of going back by the same street, I chose to turn right and walked along via Carlo Alberto, just to change the view.

Reached the junction where there was the Parish Church of the Madonna of the Angels, the usual long hairs homeless guy who often sat by the door had disappeared. The statue of the holy virgin was still standing high up on top of the church, looking down on us all beings.

Turned right and walked a few meters, then right again onto via Lagrange.
Same as via Carlo Alberto, via Lagrange is a shopping pedestrians street, but it is usually more busy and lively.

There are restaurants, bars, all kinds of shops, even a shopping complex and some very high ends shops which I have never entered before. Now, regardless high ends or low ends or whatever shops, are all closed, except the invincible grocery shops and supermarkets.

Passed by a chinese restaurant with the red lanterns still haning outside and the doors were closed since before the lockdown.

The shopping complex 'Rinascente' looked abandoned, outside there was only an old man sitting alone on the bench in the center of the street. The noise, the movement and the bustle of the past are gone.
Now,  just has to wait till the 4th of May to see what will happen next. Currently unpredictable.


Location: via Carlo Alberto/via Lagrange

Christmas Lights Are On

Just some of the Christmas lights decorations around...Some olds and some news.

Via Roma

It seems initially there was no intention to install any decoration lights on Via Roma, but after some serious consideration, they realised that they just can't leave the main street of the town center naked.

Via Lagrange

Also, in via Lagrange, the lights were installed after some late reconsiderations.

 Via Barbaroux

 As in via barbaroux, the same old lights are installed as per past few years, but these lights suit well with these narrow old streets.

Still Raining

Still raining, a scene at via Lagrange with my favourite building on that street in view.

Via Lagrange is one of the main shopping street in Torino, with some high end fashion shops and Eataly restaurante situated here, it can be quite crowded during weekends.

Fathers

Just some photo of fathers with their young kids for the Father's day.....

This father is showing his daugther the monument in piazza Carlo Alberto....

A patient father looking after his baby while waiting for the mother who is most likely in some shop....at via Lagrange.

 Another papà and baby waiting.....

A fashionable father passing through piazza San Carlo with his child....

Happy Father's Day!!!!

CDP Theme : Lets Eat

Lets eat, CDP May Theme, instead of photgraphing food, I decided to post these two photo of tables setup for dining in the open.

This was in via Lagrange, tables were setup outside the restaurant for diners, lets take a sit and eat.

This was during the street food festival, where stalls and tables were setup along the river Po, so food lovers could just buy the food and choose a table and eat.

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Chanel Street

Ever since more and more tourists came to visit Turin, we see more and more branded shops begin to open store in Turin too. Example like along via Lagrange there are Chanel, Prada, Miu Miu,  Liu Jo, Diesel, Moncler etc....

A couple walking past the Chanel shop which was not yet opened.