The Reality of Turin: The City That Put a Test Track on the Roof of Its Car Factory
At the southern edge of Turin sits a building that explains the entire city in a single architectural gesture. The Lingotto factory,…
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Oliver Hartley
Oliver Hartley writes for PenguFly. This page collects every article by this author: trip reports, routes, practical travel tips and cheap flight ideas.
The Reality of Valencia: The City That Took Its River Out of the Middle
Stand on one of the old bridges in the middle of Valencia and look over the parapet. There is a river under…
The Reality of Vancouver: The City With a Rainforest at the End of the Bus Route
Walk fifteen minutes north-west from a glass office tower in downtown Vancouver and the noise stops. The light goes green. There are…
The Reality of Medellín: The City That Made Cable Cars Public Transport
You queue on a platform above a river, in a station as clean as a hospital, and the thing that arrives to…
The Reality of Muscat: The Capital That Chose Not to Build Up
You come over the last ridge expecting a skyline, because this is the Gulf and that is what the Gulf does. There…
The Reality of Kathmandu: Three Royal Squares in One Valley
You are standing in a square of brick and carved wood, in front of a palace with more windows than a palace…
The Reality of Tashkent: Palaces Underground
It is forty degrees on the street and the pavement is doing that thing where it seems to be breathing. You go…
The Reality of Yerevan: The Capital Older Than Rome
In a museum on a hill at the southern edge of Yerevan there is a slab of basalt with wedge-shaped marks cut…
The Reality of Riga: The City One Boom Built
Stand at the top of Alberta iela at about nine in the morning, before the tour groups arrive, and look up rather…
The Reality of Dubrovnik: The Republic of Libertas
Come out of the Pile Gate tunnel at eight in the morning and the first thing you meet is the light coming…
The Reality of Stockholm: The City the Water Built
The boat pulls in at Slussen and nobody looks up. A woman with two supermarket bags steps aboard the way you would…
The Reality of Prague: The City the Bombs Missed — and What a Real Centre Costs
There is a corner of Old Town Square that nobody photographs. It is on the north side, beside the town hall: a…