Residence Les Chataigniers/Le Genepi Isola

Torino - Accommodation as rare as hens teethOur stay in Torino (Turin) was eventful before we even got here! You see before we left on our trip we learnt a major food festival was going to take place in there from 23-27 October. It was two festivals in fact, Slowfood and Terra Medre. The common thread for both was sustainable agriculture and consumption of local produce, things both Shellie and I care about. So a stay in Turin was always going to be part of our trip ...

We spent the weekend with Chris' italian relatives, who are amazing! Everyone was incredibly nice and welcoming.

The drive from Venice was quite the adventure. We left around 10 and didn't arrive until a little after 5 in the afternoon...and we didn't really stop at all during the drive! We had planned to stop midway and eat lunch in Cremona, but it didn't work out as planned. We ate lunch at AutoGrill...which we knew was horrible ...

Après pionçant à 4h00, Maria m'est réveillée à 7h30. Nous allions de faire du ski. Dans les Alpes. Avec trois et une moitié heures du sommeil. Formidable... Ses parents étaient déjà à la montagne alors nous avons pris le train de Fossano à Limone. Il a pris une heure alors j'ai reçu une autre heure du sommeil. La station était petite et a affiché sur la côté de la ...

... la dîner. J'ai fait une razzia sur les réduits de Maria pour une panoplie. Les garçons me sont pris à 20h00. Le meilleur sentiment toujours est d'avoir tous les garçons qu'on passe te jette un coup d'oeil. Nous avons retrouvé le reste de la classe et sommes allés à une pizzeria. En Italie, quand on commande de la pizza, on reçoit une pizza entière. Et on mange les ...

... train était 8 heures, il était le meilleure façon de voir la campagne superbe. Apres la voyage en train, nous sommes dû de conduire un autre heure chez Maria. Il était super de lui voir encore et de renconter sa famille. Mes premiére impressions des Italiens sont ils sont très passioné avec tout ils faissent et les garçons sont beau à morts et vraiment savent comment de s'habiller!

... place for wine tasting which is casually arranged with the owners and carried out in the cellar under the hotel itself. After wine tasting ther is nothing but a couple of flights of stairs between ones guests and thier bedrooms and pre dinner siesta.

... that I had learnt at Italian classes when I was young and it was so nice for me to have something to remind me of home at Christmas (thanks Greg for putting up with it!) - Finally getting in touch with Gigi and being invited to Christmas lunch at his place. And what a lunch it was! So many courses and different wines to go with each course. It was great to have a proper Italian Christmas and although Greg didn't understand a lot of the conversation he was in his ...

Hi folks, we're sitting in a cafe on the Piazza Vittorio in Turin (Torino) and we've just purchased some internet time using our laptop! It's amazing how we can communicate from our travels these days. Thanks to Todd Decker for introducing us to TravelPod, where we are creating our travel web site. We have posted some pictures from our first 5 days in Italy. The drive from the Lake to Turin yesterday was "interesting" - as road repair on the Autostrada (we're now calling it the auto ...

Our first taste of Europe was great!!! We flu into Turin, Italy on our 69pence Ryan Air flight. Everything was closed up for the weekend which was a shame so ill have to wait for my Prada or Gucci handbag! We had a wander around and found a farmers market full of delicious cheese's, wines, meats, breads etc. Did our fair share of tastings! We managed to wrangle a free bus from Turin airporto to Serre Chevalier in France where we stayed with Dans Ozzy mates Jezza and Zoe.

... over by the finish line. It was so much easier to take pictures there because they were slowing down. While we were walking I saw a guy with green hair, face paint, a drum, and a scarf that said Slovenia, I ran over to him and asked if I could get a picture. He was so happy to take one, he took my camera and gave it to a friend, and then pulled me in the picture with him! So funny!! I decided to get my picture taken with all the nuts with flags. The next group I saw I ...