Albergo d'Italia Chivasso

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... stretch out better late than never.
We pushed on Gary carefully negotiating hairpin bends, Kev desperately looking for something to hang onto, Rich resisting the urge to hang onto Gary's seat belt for fear it would cause him to loose consciousness.
We were soon climbing the mountain again this time heading for Italy through the St Bernard Tunnel. There a change of driver with Kev back at the helm and only an hour to Turin.
We were going to make it or at least ...

... rolled up in Annecy, Kev still at the helm. Annecy was what more like
what we were expecting - there were people! Spot of lunch listening to music to
watch the girls go by was in order.
Annecy, a quaint little backwater, set within the basin of the mountains, with a
pictureques lake, lovely bars and jammed to the rafters with tip top totty - France was
open for business and business was good.
Gary had ...

... trying to stay on course. I think I ended up peeing on the door of a museum, because it was out of the way of anyone or anything.

I will spare you the details for most of this night, but we had nowhere to sleep at all and the train station had closed so me and ross sat on one of the major canals for about 4 hours until the sun rose, deliriously trying to keep ourselves awake. The weird salami, curry sandwiches we expertly put together gave me a little energy ...

... went to the river once. The night before I left we went to Torino and had a very strong time there. Andrea cut my hair after not having done it since departing for Australia, it was a big thing for him and for me.

When I parted ways with the guys it was an emotional time, we had formed something of a brotherhood over the short time and then having to leave was very difficult. I hope to see them all again one day. My brothers from Ivrea!

... br>-re spectful people who appreciated my attempts at Italian, and returned conversation in decent English

-cafes everywhere

-mucho gelato

-"the old with the new" attitude. 2,000 year old buildings next to modern arhictecture.

DISLIKES

-t hey drive like maniacs, and I nearly had off-the-wall heart palpitations every time I crossed a street. I think I’m going to develop ulcers.

-they seem to think food is ...

... for the first time; it is a very strong alcohol that I had wanted to try since reading about the characters’ fascination with it in For Whom the Bell Tolls. It was disgusting. I don’t like hard liquor anyway, and this was particularly potent.

We bid adieu to Stephy and Paolo tonight and will see them when they come to visit in September.

... they left for McDonald's. I met with Ricca at about 7pm but Mom and Janet were gone. Ricca and I went around to look for them. Later they returned to the plaza. After that we had a long meal in Shanghai Restaurant with Ricca's papa and his gf. They don't speak Cantonese. Food came really slowly and they weren't authentic.

Ricca ...

... hadn't been there.
We had lunch in a pizza place. I ordered the asparagus pizza but it
turned out to be something unexpected. It wasn't that great... Lorenzo's
pizza tasted good. The cheese tasted really nice. Sally ordered a
salami pizza. Lorenzo paid for us with her mom's dining coupons. We
had excellent icecream at GROM. I was very ...

... where to go and that they would be giving them out at 2pm. My speed skating event was at 4:30 and I thought that would really be pushing it, but I went and found the place anyways. Right behind the NBC broadcasting booth. Every night there is local entertainment, the medals ceremony for the previous day's events, and then an international artist performing. I got to the short line that was already started at about 12:15pm. Tonight's artist was Kelly Clarkson!!! Ah ...