http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Piedmont , Alba en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:22:23 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:22:23 +0000 I forget. Well I forgot a few things in my last entry but my Italian is not advanced enough to say so. And I also decided to add more...Other WWOOFersThey are one of the best parts of the WWOOFing experience. You become instant friends because you can spend so much time together and you get someone to speak proper English with. On this farm I met Hennie from Finland and Tamar from Israel. I lear http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-424323.html Itrsquos 7 AM Irsquom sitting on the end of the bed the doors are open and Irsquom looking out over the valley of Piedmont. Birds are singing church bells are ringing and slight breeze is blowing. Irsquom writing this to ensure that I never forget this moment of closeness to god and everything around me. We ate breakfast at the BB and while sitting we observed an older picture. A http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-400553.html Kirsten has mastered the clutch. We were coming up through a castle gate at an incline of 90 degrees and she was in second gear and was starting to stall and she immediately switched into first gear without any hesitation and successfully brought the Audi into parking area. We walked around the market in Asti this morning and found a nice restaurant we had a cappuccino and sweet roll. Pierre http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-400548.html Wersquore still struggling with the clutch. We only stalled 4 times today one was on the boarder of Switzerland and Italy. Yeah right when the Poliza was watching. It has rained all day we drove around Lago Maggorio. We stopped at Orto and viewed a park at the very tippy top of the mountain that has 20 chapels for St Francis of Assisi. It was very impressive all built around 1650 1700. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-400546.html Hi I was wondering if there were any other Americans in Italy who would like to get together and chat over coffee or maybe plan a trip to go see some travel sites. Let me know http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-365040.html Not far from Serralunga d'Alba on the road back towards the highway is the much larger town of Alba. We decided to stop here for lunch and we are so glad we did We found a sunbathed cobblestone pedestrian street full of shops and restaurants to explore. We quickly discovered that Alba is known for its white truffles and the truffle festival is actually going on this month but closed while http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-214477.html As we have mentioned in the past driving distances in Europe are deceptively short and so our journey from Monaco to Serralunga d'Alba Italy took nearly 3 hours. We rolled into the tiny town in pitch black darkness following signs through turn after turn from the highway as the road became smaller and smaller. It was not unlike driving to Gourdes where we could see lights dotting various hil http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Alba/blog-214457.html