http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Piedmont , Turin en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:39:35 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:39:35 BST Ciao friends and family I finally started a blog so you are now able to view not just hear about my journey Here are some pictures from the past few weeks. EnjoyCasey http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-288037.html Alternate titles Comover it andOur time went Shitaly.Note Any complaints about the infrequency of blog entries should be filed directly to the members of state representing the European Union and the affiliates of the European Economic Area. 10 euro an hour for internet is such an injustice that there exists no word to describe it so i must make them up. Internet in Europe is absolutely http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-272221.html What a long week After Provence it was fairly quiet. On my day off on Wednesday I did a museum visit with a tour guide at the Rodin Museum in central Paris. I really enjoyed it and think I liked his work mainly because his ideas were very innovative for a sculptor and especially those who commission art don't always favor that. Thursday was quiet and I had coffee with one of the CUA girls who's i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-261627.html E cos il giorno della partenza arriv. Lascio una citt e un Paese in pieno inverno con temperature che spaventerebbero un Eschimese per il dolce sole dei Caraibi. Conto di star via sei mesi forse pi e rientrare in Italia da Oriente dall'Asia un vecchio sogno. Ero anni che aspettavo sognavo questo viaggio. Lo sapete tutti. Cercher di tenervi aggiornati settimanalmente su nuovi spostame http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-241487.html This weekend of the 2629th of October I went to go visit my friend Danielle who is studying over in Turin Italy. It was a bit of a train ride to get over there took about 8 hours when it should have only taken 5 due to the lovely construction but when I got there it was all worth it. Our first night I meet her roommates and some of her friends. We made tacos which were pretty amazing and watche http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-217918.html Today Cantor Mauro Lillo the little Weiner dog hopped into the silver Fiat Punto which statisitically 99 of Italians own an exact copy of except that one guy the one who drives the Ferrari. We drove the hour and a half trip up to Torino in inglese Turin site of the '06 Winter Olympics and because of that fact all of the parks and public places were newly renovated with a few extr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-198412.html Tuesdays in Torino.If I continued at Cascina Piola I imagine Irsquod spend all my Tuesdays in Torino. Eventually breaking out and discovering expensive artisan cheese and bread shops off the beaten path. Tattoo parlors grocery stores cheap goods and seedy people all I these I can see from the bus but none encountered first hand. My Tuesdays in Torino have been filled with markets side st http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-193257.html Torino is never any shortage of opportunities for diversion culture and amusment...This visit to Italy wasn't planned until a month before we left... which is quite wrong as we usually try our best to book holidays a long time before going for obvious reasons it's cheap We did plan Marocco in March or April and that's what we were looking forward to most of the time but one day in July Piot http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-193024.html Day by day accounts here at Cascina Piola melt like sugar over a warm flame. One day is filled with tomatoes and sun the next with a thunderous electric summer storm and weeding the mosquitos and fresh cold spouting spring the coming and going of guests and blooming of new flowers every day.Raffaella and Piero comically juxtapose eachother's work methods with warm love and affection. Their h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-173287.html Chocolate in TorinonbspEurope raquonbspItaly raquonbspTorino Turin By So GuiOctober 5th 2006Sophie NgoYou like chocolate The best way to visit the city is to follow the map of Choco Pass. This Choco Pass allows you to taste chocolate specialities in Torino...chocolate cake drinks pralines. So you can visit the city and appreciate chocolate at the same timeBut even you greedy guys co http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-173186.html I attempted to spend a few days in the Cinque Terre and on the beaches of the Italian Riviera. It would take a couple train changes to get there and I was careful about writing them down when I bought the tickets. The morning I left I checked the time table on the Italy's train website and wrote them down again just in case I lost one copy. So I boarded my train from Florence to Pisa no problem. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-168134.html We are still alive and not lost in case you were worried. We are currently in Turino in the Italian Alps. the winter olympics were just here recently. We are too busy sampling the finest chocolate in the world with our chocopass of the city to update this silly blog. we will update in Venice in a day or so. And we have some great stories Caio http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-164000.html Apartment in TURIN nbspEurope raquonbspItaly raquonbspTorino Turin By alexitalyMay 14th 2007alessandro MAYA'S APARTMENT The apartment situated on the 4TH floor and recently refurbished is very comfortable and brightly illuminated. Itrsquos composed by an entrance dining room with completely equipped kitchen large living with TVSat HiFi Cdplayer 1 bedroom with twin beds 1 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-158507.html Turin Torino is an ideal holiday destination but also a perfect stopoff on a longer trip thanks to the access roads and efficient transport systems that provide excellent land and air links from all principal Italian and European cities. Turin Torino lies at the centre of a wonderful region Piedmont the lsquoland at the foot of the mountainsrsquo. In fact as you travel towards the c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-158494.html Crossed by the river Po Turin is an Italian city of dual importance. From a cultural point of view it has been the capital of the Sabaudo state and has a well preserved Baroque style historic center. From n economic point of view it has become Italy's second most important industrial city with the head quarters of the FIAT at Lingotto.The first monument to visit has to be the symbol of Turin the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-158490.html My friends and I felt like we needed to get away from Florence. We needed some fresh air a new Italian city and different scenery. We decided to go to Torino where the winter Olympics were in 2006. Torino is a great place to go to really live like an Italian and take in what Italian cities are like. We bought a 2 day pass to get into all the museums for free and ride transportation for free. So http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-132958.html This is my first entry from Europe I still cannot believe I am here... On Saturday I went on a day trip to Milan It was so much fun. We saw the HUGE Duomo Cathedral and the Sfroza Castle. There were some crazy people there.... I have a lot of stories about that. Then on Sunday I took a walk around Torino and went ice skating downtown and took a tour of the Plazzo Reale Royal Palace. It http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-119246.html This was a continuation of my Paris trip. Me and Serena took a flight from Paris to Torino. Torino is where she goes to university. We had a reunion of first and second semester people from Latvia. People that were at the reunion Adam Me Serena Stefania Lena Anne Hoimar Marina Andrea and Christoph. The 2006 Winter Games were going on while we were there. The city had been transform http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-56698.html If you happened to be watching Italian MTv today at about 3pm you would have seen yours truly in the background tactfully avoiding the hosts running around with a mike interviewing people by hiding behind a bush Hehehe. So really I guess you would have only seen the bush...hmm... pAnyways. It's hard to imagine that just two short months ago this city was playing host to the Winter Olympics. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-55837.html Photos now ... tales later http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-46919.html Well on my way back to London like I said before I met one of Jay Leno's cameramen. He was really cool. But thing that made me the most mad was that I had to go back to London BOO i wish i could have been at the Olympics longer but whatever. So i left reluctantly. It was really frusterating my trip back. you see first the plane was delayed for boarding. Then they boarded us and once ever http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-44377.html What you all have been so patiently awaiting...thank you for baring with me...is this story Probably the best day of my life Torino the Olympics everything was absolutely amazing After coming out of the train station the first thing i saw that really captured my eye was this Italian man i saw...now he didn't capture my eye in the way most would like to think...He was strikingly similar to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-44375.html The olympics. It is a wierd feeling going to an olympic went of any kind. I really felt the national pride from everyone and from myself more than every before. I found myself rooting for some countries and rooting agains't others sometimes for a particular reason sometimes just because they are the underdog. We got to go see the Russia vs. Kazakistan Hokey game and for under face value. S http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-42584.html Well...New Year's Eve was great...the food was the center piece for the italians...we Luca I and 6 of his friends went to the grocery store for a couple hours of some crazy shopping...managed to break a bottle of wine and get the food we set out for in under 3 hours. We then started preparing everything for the next...mmm 6 or 7 hours. They let me slice and dice but that's all. The food...in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-35362.html I went to Milan Milano for the italians with my friend Luca and one of his friends Giancarlo. After a crazy drive into Milan we spent the day seeing the sites...umm..we saw the duomo and we walked by the church that holds the last supper. Oh and we went to a very chic and cool shopping district that only a handful of tourist know about compared with the kabillion people in the piazza of th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-34951.html My great grandfather was born in italy and emigrated to argentina to find new challenges... he was born in sicily but here I was going back the steps he did this time in the northern part of italy at Turin...I was told that this city was very grey and people close and unhappy but I found a beautiful city with very lively people... may be because Ive arrived during the summertime... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Piedmont/Turin/blog-24290.html