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Finally a (Slow) Computer--Not Quite Ready for the Olympics

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

Fight to survive

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 25th 2004

FIghting...

Peacehiker

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

How do you say that in italian?

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 3rd 2003

claveles

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

Turin bad start but ok now

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin July 3rd 2003

Kutath

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

Brief history of Italy

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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