Hotel Residence Miramontii Turin

... such as myself. It started with home made grissinni and salami, followed by vittello tonnato: a mayonnaise based dip with capers and tuna served on top of cold slices of veal. I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted, and dug in with gusto. The main course was beef Agnollotti with sage and Parmesan butter. The pasta so soft and tender that it was by some miracle that it was able to hold in the filling. I helped myself to two huge bowls. As I sat back in my chair, struggling to ...

... going at ten for a Euro (compare that with the prices back home!). Oranges are in season and hard to resist; a Euro will get you three kilos of the best. Plump fennel, sits next to giant unusual pumpkins, and a huge variety of greens, most of which are foreign to me.

Inside the main building the butchers are doing things the way they should be done. Silky tripe sits next to glistening livers. Chickens, with heads, and sometimes feathers, still ...

... of my cooking, thanking me everyday. As we talk now it feels as if we've known each other for ages.

After a coffee and a shower at his place it's time for dinner.
"What do you want to eat? Pizza?"
"Whatever's going"
We join his friend Tanya and go to eat the best pizza of the city.

It seems so simple, why can't we get it right back home? The crust is thin, but not too crispy, light and fluffy, but not doughy; topped with ...

We awoke in Dijon to find everything back at normal size - apart from the mini which seemed
to have shrunk despite the deminishing food mountain in the car. Much amusement was had in
the showers following the remnents of our new towels, Richard thought he had some life
threatening disese, well, thought a vital part of his anatomy due to bleeding, Kev thought
he was growing a new Goatee on his neather regions ...

... was all posh and serious, and then near the end they started playing this different kind of music and then the conductor started dancing, and then before you knew it, the orchestra while still playing started dancing. It was hilarious!!! oh we had such a fun time. But then on our way back to the bus station, it started storming!!! we were running through the rain and thunder. It was a fun end to our date I guess. Today was also so good, we ...

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 ...

Hey All! So I decided to do the blog thing so I wouldn't have to upload a bunch of photos in an e-mail! Some of the photos are of my apartment and little things in Torino that I have seen so far. There is so much to do in Torino that it's nice to come home to a little apartment and hang out, cook and watch the people below our apartment. There are also some photos of the fun nightlife down by the strip of clubs also known as the boardwalk ...

... I asked Lorenzo about 3 different shirts and I bought the one
that he liked least. I think he was bored waiting for so long... and at
least he didn't get depressed but I did in the palazzo. We went to some
chocolate shops and I actually ate a lot of chocolate and bought some as
souvenirs. By 6 or 7pm we went for dinner at a very nice bar ...

... big crevasse and then the whole run was cake after that.

As it turns out probably the most dangerous part is the Italian side because far fewer people ski from Italy into France. And really it was just a matter of skiing around one big crevasse. Almost everybody who skies the Vallee Blanche skis from the Aiguille du Midi, which is a ridgeline above Chamonix, France. At the point where the French route converges with the Italian route, the run became a lot like Disneyland ...

... a red t-shirt with a white stocking hat on. I will be wearing a Blue T-Shirt with a black stocking hat on. We have also made posters!! The one side of the poster will say "Kodiak and Wiley are Nuts Bout Curling" The "Nuts Bout Curling" will be lined up so that the NBC is big and we can get on NBC. The other side we haven't made yet, but we are thinking it will say "Two Johnson Sisters and Two of us. Coincidence?" (There are two sisters on the women's curling teams, Cassie and ...