R: Re: R: Better landscapes; was: Italogallic in Zera, and other languages.

Sally wrote:
> Oh, that's beautiful!  I miss Europe... I lived in Switzerland for two
> years
I have to schoolmates from Switzerland, you know, Como is on the border.

> and took several trips to Italy: one to Rome, of course, the other
> to Turin where I stayed at the Cenaculo (cheap, and it was Easter, and
> the nuns spoke French).
> From my little window in my tiny, neat room,
> I could see the Alps to the west, which were lit up on Easter day by the
> red rays of the rising sun.  It was spectacular.  In front of the
> Cenacle
> was a little park with a swing set and a row of shabbily elegant old
> eighteenth-century houses.  Get up on the hill behind the Cenacle and
> all of yellow-bricked and arcaded Turin is laid out before you with the
> Mole dominating the cityscape.  Also some prominent signs for car
> manufacturers!  It was heaven.
I simply love Turin, a very highclass city, and Piemontese is a so well
sounding dialect!

> In Switzerland, I lived in Geneva in Plainpalais.  Not much to look at
> out my attic apartment windows (an old grey stucco school house with
> red tiled roofs to the west) and the back gardens of apartments to the
> east, with just a little bit of the top of the granite streaked Saleve
> poking up over the trees.  Go down the street and you see the Arve
> that separates Plainpalais from Carouge.  A muddy river that merges
> with the green Rhone on the other side of Plainpalais. Streetcars
> (the number 12) running up and down.
>
> No such picturesqueness in Rochester, unless you count the spectacular
> waterfall in the downtown section, site of the old Mill Races.
> Moldering
> old buildings surrounding a deep, pockmarked gorge: train track over the
> massive, dun-colored waterfall with its heavy sheets of water.
> Rochester
> General Electric building on the other side looking like a fortress with
> many levels reaching down to the gorge--rain-soaked concrete and rusty
> open-grid stairs.  Lots of Canada geese and gulls.  Raw weather.
>
> Sally
>
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