Category: Travel

I’m chalking this up to bad luck. It seems a bit churlish to compare the visit of Papa Francesco to the sciopero (strike) of transportation workers in Torino but the effect is the same. The security measures threw the city (at least as it affected me) into chaos for two days. Many of the buses […]

When I went to Torino, I had decided to travel to Aosta. I had never been to that part of the county and was curious so see what it was like. It’s near the border of France in the midst of mountains. It’s not far from Mont Blanc in France – looks like about 15 […]

I had been to Turin a couple of times in the past. The last time was 3 or 4 years ago when I went to visit my friend Massimiliano. So I thought that it was a good time to get together again. So I took a high speed train (.Italo) from Bologna – which takes […]

I’ve been here almost a month and yet to write a post. So maybe I’ll make up for lost time. First up- the Germans in the church. A tour guide that I know mentioned one evening that since she also spoke German she was going to be busy the next day. 300 Germans were to […]