Dear followers and future readers, I am back and on "away" again. I left Berlin yesterday, on an Air Berlin flight to Milan Malpensa. Then I took the train to Centrale, Chivasso and then Ivrea where my friend Maurizio picked me up at the station. And this is my first stop, B&B Cascina Moncrava, on the outskirts of Ivrea, which - contrary to what I had expected - is a pretty place.