Europa Chivasso

... clutch. Kev couldn't raise a smile from Mr misery on his right, the lights changed and the Hearse driver left us for dead!!!!!!!!!!!
One more chance to ignore Doris, a quick u-turn across six lanes of traffic and two tram lines and we were back on course for the hotel.
Finally arriving at the front of the hotel doors after covering 1040 miles in the ever surprising pooper. We emerged with no aches and pains (caused by the pooper).
Bring on the return.............!

... br>we were busy minding our own business when we saw a Giant Coq, looming menicingly above us!
After ignoring Doris yet again, ready to take on the Mountain for the first time, Rich at the helm with gay abondon, ignoring the acrid smell of burning rubber and hot brakes, Kev was strangely quiet in the back. as we edged our way towards Chamoinix for the promised night in a hotel room with its own bathroom!

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In this main square was set up, a basketball court sized, how do I say this. Simply put a giant box of sand. Which apparently was built to house some amatuer championships for a sand soccer league. Needing to kill dubious amounts of time (it was 10 a.m. and we couldn't check into the hostel until 4 p.m. so we had lots and lots of time). Due to my decreasing existence in reality, due to the lack of sleep and slight hangover I had to experience while awake ...

... Canadian guy and a French girl. We got a short ride together to the pay station and then another good ride to the Marseille freeway exit. I kept going as they were going to Marseille, I was going to Milan. I went with the same guy to the Nice freeway exit, we stopped at a gas station and he bought me a coffee. Nice guy. I got another ride with a French guy to the toll station, and then got another ride with a Slovakian truck driver into Italy ...

After having spent only a week in Italy, a vast country of 30 million people, each with their own individual habits and tendencies, I can hardly claim to be a reliable source of cultural explorative studies. However, I have been observing subtle tendency differences.

I find most Italians to be gracious to me as a foreigner. They seem happy to use whatever knowledge of the English language they have to assist me. They do not seem to be upset at my ...

... train to Bardonecchia and took a ski lift up, did a little hiking, and lay in the sun in the mountains. We stopped further on the rail line at Oulx and got some beer and food.

Joel went to Aosta, another mountain town for the day, so now we have two sets of pictures from three gorgeous towns.

We had a gigantic meal for our last night. I tried ...

... hall, terracotta figures, other mirrors...amazing! We were invited to first see ourselves as shattered fragments to enter into this material world., then danced ,then focused ourselves into the black 1 m circle in the middle and draw all together again. We lay down on turquoise yoga mats with blankets. Orango then cleansed us with expert playing a huge gong ...harmonizing and activating our spiritual or esoteric aspects. One simply has to experience this. Then the magic ...

Written in my notebook

Clara had an appointment and left quite early. Ricca and us went to his papa's apartment for lunch. The food was great. We had beef steak, risotto with porcini mushroom, white wine, etc. I was already stuffed by the steak. Ricca's brother is very good in pool. It was three or 4 something when we set out for ...

... tour. I'm just not into these things and the
palaces in England are so much grander than this. Whatever.
We kept walking through the streets in Turin. Some buildings are funny.
One of them has a piercing. Another one has cannons left by the French on
the wall. We shopped in one of the shopping street and Sally and I bought shirts
in ...

... 3 hours before the start time". Yeah right. The rink wasn't very full yet, but there was still under an hour to go. Right before the statrt, the place was full of orange people. Oh, sorry Dutch people. There must have been over a thousand of them in total. Groups in all four corners of the Oval. I was sitting with one of the American skaters family, and some Canadians as well. There were 14 pairs to skate the 3000m. The 3 Canadians were in the final 3 pairings ...