Turin
Travel Blogs from Turin, Italy
Torino Ice 2005
... media centre where they have the most amazing load of information. Even got a program!!! Plus a bag, a woolly beanie, a 'Time Out Turin' book and other tourist information. There was a huge book with the new judging system explained, stats and info on ...
The Italian Job
... your plates of meat right up on the seat This is the Self Preservation Society The Self Preservation Society Yes, here we are, In Turin. We have see the church where the minis go down, the weir, the roof top chase scene, the roof where the minis ...
France
... around the track. We still have few cents left after the Casino visit and therefore we have been able to carry on our trip to Italy. It took us nearly an hour from the French border before we had our first pizza and ice-cream. Right now we are visiting ...
I guess I´m a year late...
The main reason I stopped in Torino was because of the Olympics. It is also close to Zurich, where my flight out of Europe was, and Monte Carlo too. I had planned on doing a day trip to Monte Carlo and Torino looked like a good base when I was looking ...
Day 3
... night the parents invited a couple over to the apartment for dinner and to watch a high-profile soccer match between France and Italy. I think that the word for soccer, calcio, is funnily enough the same word for "calcium." Go figure. While the ladies ...
Off skiing again!
Turin is where we landed on our flight. We had a three-hour transfer over the mountains and the border into ...
We wuz robbed...
Just a quick entry to document the happenings of Turin. Arrived last night in to the station, only to be immediately and thoroughly confused by the tram system. I was misdirected by 2 people before eventually coming across a very kind man who ...
We are back!
Hello everyone, WE ARE BACK! After a LONG flight, we landed in Melbourne on the 19th of September. Life has gone back to how it was before but the memories of our amazing holiday will be with us forever! Apologies for not having done any entries in ...
Una missione possible
Questi due solari figuri ce l'hanno fatta, solo grazie a loro e alla loro capacità di reggere il sonno siamo riusciti ad arrivare a Malpensa, ancora tutto chiuso, ed iniziare così questa avventura... Le ultime loro frasi sono state... Richicit "Cavalca ...
In Which She Describes for You A Typical Day
... a late-night university party at a friend's friend's apartment. Instead I put on my Colorado College running shorts, my XL "Democrats in Italy for Obama" t-shirt, and curl up on the couch with a mug of rosemary lemon tea to read my novel. If you ever ...
An Analysis of Italian Culture
... all end in vowels, and then order your real meal. Save for Naples, what I would deem as the Compton of southern Italy, these cities are beautiful and the people are classy. LIKES -food -wine -friendliness -respectful people who appreciated my attempts at ...
Lyon to Turin
Departed Lyon on Friday, catching the train to Chambery and on to Turin. Saturday morning I visited Duomo di San Giovanni, home to the famous Shroud of Turin. As it's rarely on public display (in 2000 and next time will be 2025), you do get to ...
In Which She Manages to Pull It Off
... turkey," I told him, and didn't even have to mention the reservation name since it's highly unusual to eat turkey in Italy. P--- had asked him to please, please find the smallest turkey possible, because when last year's au pair did Thanksgiving they had ...
Torino Torino
Well I've been in Torino for a few days and already love it! The city is just gorgeous (when the Italian say it's an 'industrial' town, clearly they have a different meaning to the word than we do!). The Residence I'm staying in is actually ...
a last 'due passi' in Torino
... piece. The next day, in Cocconato, we walked around, had an enormous lunch, visited Asti (where we bought the "best torrone in Italy"), had an enormous dinner, and watched a fun Italian TV game show that I could have won a lot of money on apparently... ...
Slow Food
... gelato ever from Grom, a slow food gelateria around the corner from the hotel. Chocolate is a big deal in Northern Italy, and especially Turin. They claim to be the original chocolatiers in Europe, but the Swiss made it more famous when they added ...
In Which She Resembles a Man.
For those of you who also tend to compile Soundtracks For Life (I know my dad is one of those people), nota bene: Marvin's Gaye's "Heard It Through the Grapevine" is the perfect tempo for strutting home along sunny city streets with big sunglasses, a new ...
In Which She Doesn't Speak for Hours
... remember, each day? It was sunny and cold then, too, and magic. At that moment of listening I knew what I was doing here in Italy: soaking up a number of lovely moments, because I've earned the time, the luxury, to do so. There were and there will be ...
Il progetto
Il progetto è questo: due mesi in Bolivia, a Cochabamba per la precisione. Lavorerò due mesi in due giornali della città e sarò ospitato da una famiglia del posto. Poi, dopo due mesi, lascerò la Bolivia per partire per un viaggetto in solitaria, ...
Travel Day
... right now, which is just as beautiful as I’ve imagined it to be. We are en route to Milan, to take a connecting train to Turin to stay with Gabriella’s family. I can’t wait to meet them, I already feel indebted to a bunch of people who ...
Turino
... neighborhoods that are disgusting and some that are fantastic just like any other metropolitan area. Speaking in general terms, Turin is absolutely fantastic. Like Rome, Turin has countless streetside cafes, gelaterias, chic shops and cosmopolitan stores. ...
Last day in Turino
Today we woke up around 10 and were again fed a very testy, simple Italian breakfast. Joel was sluggish today and it didn't surprise me and Cody when he missed the tram towards the train station by walking past us at the stop. This happened early and our ...
Florence, Turin, Piedmont, Milan
I wrapped up my Europe trip with visits to Florence and then to the Piedmont region of Italy to visit family. They spoiled me rotten with the best food and wine I've had in months. I am properly fattened up for the next legs of my trip to Turkey and ...
In Which An Old Friend Comes To Visit
Doug, one of my dearest friends from the first weeks of high school, came to stay in Turin for three days. Only a few days before his arrival, something big and terrible hit me square in the gut, rendering me lethargic and hopeless: homesickness, like I'd ...
Arriving in Turin
... , an Italian-only speaker) to compose the heading correctly in italiano. I have forgotten so much since I was last here in Italy, but it's coming back slowly. Piano, piano, as they say. I will update this as frequently and comprehensively as I ...
Aurelia, tyres and a Summer cold
... really lost hope. We plan to leave tomorrow very early to ride to Cremona, replace the tyres, spend one last night camping in Italy then cross into Switzerland, over the Alps and meet Jan, a relative of Felix, at his mountain cottage where we will spend ...


