Astoria Biella

... ciao" to this kid and that was the extent of our knowledge of one another, but I was too tired to care, and I've come to expect random things here. Plus, it was butt-suckin cold there, so all I wanted was to huddle under my blankets and sleep.

Usually on Sundays the family goes to church then heads over to the grandparents apartment in Borgo for lunch, where all the aunts, uncles and cousins come too. But the dad, Caesar (pronounced Chezz-ah-ray)(how ...

... 7 lakes in the region!

If anyone is planning a trip to Stresa I highly recommend eating at Pappagallo's restaurant. They had the best atmosphere (singing waiters no less!), best wood oven pizza and most important the best desserts! Need to add some photos to this one to give you the full picture!

We set off today, making our way towards France. Our plan is to get to Geneva for one night, travel on to Clemont Ferrand in France and finally reach St Avit de Soulage on Saturday.
As we are with 30 km of a spectacular view of the Matterhorn we make a slight diversion to take in this iconic mountain.
Halfway to our destination and up a winding, uphill road, the temperature guage starts to ...

... the roof came off the car, the two guys had just returned from a 8 month trip in Australia. After a brief discussion they told me to get in. There was an instant connection between us, young guys, had travelled to the other side of the world, we shared many similarities. They offered me to stay in their house for the night which I accepted with much appreciation. We drove about another hour until we arrived to the house. A great day.

The ...

... 8217;t for the fact that everything was in Italian, it could have been North Jersey.

We arrived back in Switzerland and Lake Lugano around 5:20. We have a lovely room with a view of the lake. The Internet isn’t free here in the room (10 Swiss Franc for 24 hours), so I am going to attempt to use the public computer and upload this.

There is someone waiting for the public computer, so pictures will have to wait.

On May 25 we flew from Cagliari in Sardinia to Milan in the northern part of Italy where we planned to spend two nights. We flew to Milan because it was the only way we could ultimately get to Greece from Sardinia. When we arrived in Milan, it was a record 95 degrees HOT HOT HOT. Fortunately, we had already decided to rent a car and drive 40 miles north of Milan to Lake Maggiore which is in the much cooler Italian Alps.

Lake ...

... me very much of Denver.  So, me and four other friends set out on our pilgrimage to find Pier Giorgio's house.  The catch was we had no idea where we were going...literally.  All we knew was that his house was somewhere near Torino and we trusted that God would honor our intentions and that we would find some place to stay...Here is the story....

... about these mountains but Lorenzo
didn't know. We toured around his house and had lunch. His mom
prepared gnocchi with spinach, a local dessert named Bonar, and some caffe.
There were two big rabbits in the garden. The two cats passed away in Nov
and January. We took some pictures outside the house. Lorenzo
exchanged 300 euros each for ...

... each meal that I don't think we felt hungry the whole time we were there. She made some of our favorite Italian food like polenta, gnocci, risotto and others. Christina was able to take us around the area a bit and we also spent time touring around with Maria Carrola and her father Pierre. Maria ...

... e they have received art showing the birth of Jesus from about 30 diff**ent cultures. One of my favorites was Alaska wh**e Mary and the onlook**s are dressed in warm coats and instead of pigs and donkies th**e are husky dogs and a bear. Rose off**ed to make lasagne for us. That would have been p**fect for me since lasagne is my favorite food and I had nev** had it in Italy (I did finally have it in a café in Arona but it wasn't especially good). Howev** Mauro specialized in ...