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Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin February 24th 2007

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 we went exploring around Torino. We went to the Egyptian Museum, the National Cinema Museum, and a Mountain (Alps) Museum. We took a walking tour of part of the city, hiking up a lot of hills, and found an amazing views of the city!! It was very foggy the whole weekend, but that is okay because we ... read more
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Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin April 28th 2006

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... ;p Anyways. It's hard to imagine that just two short months ago this city was playing host to the Winter Olympics. Where has all the snow gone??? Yes, I'm well aware that it is now spring, but still. Although remnants and reminders of the games are everywhere. Flags with the games motto 'passion lives here' (or 'la pasionne abita qui' in Italian- see, I'm learning stuff!!), odd little red spiky metal sculptures I guess you'd call them, saying 'Torino, OIympic host city' on them, and other bits ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin February 25th 2006

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 everyone was aboard, we began to leave, but then they got a call from tower control and we had to sit on the runway for an hour before we could take off. Then I got back to london and it took them FOREVER to get our baggage on the thingy. And I wasn't the only one who was ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin February 24th 2006

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 someone from home and I immediatedly knew who it was: Filpi!!! he was about the same height, same build, had the same eyes, and even the same gruff laugh...But i was too intimidated by him to stop and talk. (And as it turns out Filpi had some relatives that live near Torino....I should have just tried to talk to him) and the Canandian wanted to carry on. ... read more
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Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin February 22nd 2006

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. Some scalper saw us being bummed out due to the fact that we couldn't get tickets to anything. It was close to game time so it was a perfect match. It was a lot of fun and those russians sure know how to cheer and chant. Funny fact: Since Budweiser is the sponcer of the olympics, it is the only beer you can get at the events. ... read more
The hockey building we didn't go to
haveing fun outside the grounds
so close but yet so far away

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin September 10th 2005

Travel life was a bit less stressful before the age of computer technology. We are doing great except for the frustrating interface with computers, or lack thereof. After a week of biking, wew finallyhave found an internet site at the Olympic center in Torino, but this keyboard is all weird so my apologies in dvance for typos and brevity as my patience is already waning. The cycling to here has been superb. Aagain, it is detailed on the handheld computer that I have yet to figure out how to hook up to a wireless network. They are much less enamored with the internet over here andeventhe idea of internet cafes seems alien. Aand wireless points are almost non existtent, and where they are, I cant seem to hook up. Hopefully this will work at some ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 25th 2004

25.07.2004 - Fight to survive Turin, Italy DAY 6 Never in my life I have been so free, so happy and so broke :) I very much felt what does it mean FIGHT TO SURVIVE. I played guitar on the street for long hours, without anyone noticing me. When I was near Coliseum in Rome I was happy to receive a few coins, until an angry lady came to me and threw my backpack few meters away and told me with a sharp look: "This is my space." I entered a zone where everybody fights for every cent. Later in the night, the last day in Rome, I figured out you need to be more aggressive. I started playing in front of the open-air restaurants. I made a short speech in Italian and then I went ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 3rd 2003

Quick blog: for those of you who don't know i am obsessed with choclate breakfast foods. Leaving Lyon i got a fresh, straight from the oven Pan Chocolat (chocolate croissant)... AMAZING that was after an fantastic splurgy meal the night before at Le Nord... had the best choclate ganache bomb ever. more about that someother time. Turin has 2 train stations. We only know that because we arrived at the wrong one and had to walk all the way to the other one. No one here speaks English, or French. (Tania speaks french and we are not far from france). We got to the hostel anyway, which is also on a steep hill, just to find that it was closed. Poor Tania learned how cranky a hungry, hot, frustrated and tired Caren is. Once we got ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 3rd 2003

yeah.... got to turin in the wrong train station but we didn't know it. So we wondered around for a very long time trying to find someone who spoke English and wondering why we couldn't find ourselves on the map. We finally found the right train station and started looking for information. Yeah.... it was in the entirely wrong direction from where the sign said it was. Turin does not have many engish speaking people. This hostel is amazing. It is also at the top of a very very steep hill. Boy am I happy we had reservations. It has clean bathrooms, lockers, and clean, secure rooms. After our start it was encouraging to see. In the afternoon we went to the Egyptian museum which was really cool cause they have tons of artifacts that had ... read more




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