Tea at Johnny's Towers relocated for a holiday recently. Rather than just the one track I'll let you have a few this week.
We were in Italy for visits to Milan, Turin and Genoa - Italy's one-time so-called 'Industrial Triangle'. So where better to start than with the theme for the BBC's much-derided 1980s ferry-based soap opera Triangle.
First stop was Milan. Long story short but we needed to get the metro from a station called Repubblica. Ok it's spelled differently but if you think I can avoid Republica's big 90s hit Ready to Go then you're wrong I'm afraid.
We caught that underground train to the Duomo, the Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary. We had tickets to walk on the roof which I found quite overwhelming. 600 years of construction and all those people involved in the building of it and us up there walking around it. Quite something. And the ideal opportunity for Up on the Roof, The Drifters classic from 1962.
On to Turin then. Famous for Juventus FC and the setting for the heist in 1969 crime caper The Italian Job. As well as being in some of the squares and galleries used for the car chase we were staying near the Porto Nuova railway station where a motorcycle policeman comes a cropper and also visited Villa della Regina, the gang's hideout where they made their final preparations. So we need to choose Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society) from the soundtrack.
There was a great view from the Villa della Regina, across the city with the Alps in the background. Which is an excuse to use Mountains by, His Royal Purpleness, Prince. It's from the brilliant 1986 album Parade.
From Turin it was on to our final stop, Genoa. It seems to be a city struggling with the number of visitors and, as a port city on the Mediterranean, migration. If you like churches, huge buildings, foccacia and aquariums it could be for you though. Genoa has a motto, More Than This, which raises the question more than what exactly? Still, it brings Roxy Music's 1982 top ten hit of the same name into play.
And then it was time to come home. Flying in to Stansted for the first time. That made it our fourth airport of the holiday after Gatwick, Milan Malpensa and Genoa. And that has to remind you of Airport by one-time pub rockers The Motors, a 1978 top ten hit and their biggest seller.
The final leg home was by taxi. Our driver had a Turkish Kurd heritage and to stop himself dozing off on a tiring, wet journey he introduced to some Kurdish folk music. We were quite taken by some of it so as an example let's finish, as we did our holiday, with Shirin Shirin by Shahram Nazeri.
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