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Oct 22, 2009

Torino

Torino Ice 2005
Jan 29, 2005 (8 photos)

... and I made it there by about 23.30. Thank god they were still open!! After a stinking start and frustrating journey into Turin, I'd had a fab day watching skating and a tasty calzone to end it with. Next day was the Original Dance and the Men's Long ...

The Italian Job
Nov 17, 2003 (5 photos)

... 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
May 1, 2008 (12 photos)

... 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 our ...

Day 3
Jun 18, 2008 (16 photos)

... 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!
Dec 23, 2002

Turin is where we landed on our flight.  We had a three-hour transfer over the mountains and the border into France.

A day in Turino
Dec 29, 2002

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We are back!
Sep 30, 2006 (5 photos)

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 the ...

In Which She Describes for You A Typical Day
Oct 1, 2008

... 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
Jul 11, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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
Jun 7, 2008 (3 photos)

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 see ...

In Which She Manages to Pull It Off
Nov 29, 2008

... 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 ...

In Which She Resembles a Man.
Jul 25, 2008

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
Dec 9, 2008

... , 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 times in my ...

Travel Day
Jul 8, 2009 (2 photos)

... 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 are ...

Turino
Jul 9, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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
Jul 10, 2009 (5 photos)

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 ...

In Which An Old Friend Comes To Visit
Oct 12, 2008 (4 photos)

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
Jun 16, 2008

... , 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 can ...

Museo Egizio
Sep 18, 2007 (35 photos)

Me and my roomies went downtown Tuesday to check out the Egyptian Museum. It's the second largest in the world next to the one in Cairo, Egypt. It was amazing...but check out the pictures for yourself! Sorry my picture titles are lame...I wasn't feeling ...

Packing up for Bologna
Jun 5, 2007

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Shrouds, mountains and palaces
Jun 4, 2007

... Gone are the streets clogged with mopeds and bad drivers. The streets are relatively free of rubbish and the architecture's actually well-maintained. Turin itself is a graceful, elegant city . . . very easy on the eyes. I was really quite surprised by how ...

Olympic Fever!
Jan 28, 2006 (13 photos)

... am looking forward to the next Olympics when I can do that. Torino was an absolutely amazing city, too. I always thought that Northern Italy was much more industrial than the rest of the country, and while that's true, it also feels a lot more like "Europe ...

Turin
Jul 12, 2008 (7 photos)

We caught the train to Torino arriving mid afternoon and had a rest before walking to Pellorino Park where we were attending a free music festival. We caught a few bands including Soulwax, 2 Many DJ's and Tricky. We spent the day wandering around the ...

Giro D'Italia
May 27, 2005 (4 photos)

Into Turin by train (timetables are a funny thing) to watch some of the time trials. Matt drools over some fantastic bikes and Chris torments Phil with photo messaging.

Thanksgiving. Oh, no.
Nov 3, 2008

The au pair who came before me, cooked Thanksgiving dinner. Yikes! Talk about living up to someone else's standard. Please, please send recipes! I don't want to just take them off the internet, but would love to get them from family members... I might ...

Hotel Roma Rocca
Sep 2, 2007 (4 photos)

Hey everyone...I did it! I'm in Italy and there is no turning back. I arrived and spent the first night in a hotel in Torino with other students of the program. Hard to get used to the fact that I will be here for four months. I will miss home and the ...

THE SHROUD OF TURIN
May 29, 2009 (16 photos)

... out.  Looks like a nice place, clean washrooms and free wi-fi.  It is Camping Mombaroni in Torredaniele Italy, just north of Turin.  Very friendly mom, daughter and grandma run it.  I think they gave away ice creams to all their friend ...

Spoiled
Sep 12, 2007 (11 photos)

So here are a few photos of my apartment. Not too shabby! I was expecting the bare minimum and definitely was surprised at how nice it is. Our landlord used to live here so it's fully furnished with her personal things. We were especially lucky in getting ...

In Which She Awakes at Four in the Morning
Oct 28, 2008

... to know that this little elementary school is one of the tons of schools - up to the universities, in some cities - all over Italy joining to protest the new laws. The weather has changed. The leaves are yellow, amber, and falling, and it's begun to ...