Turin
Time flies, the majority of the Italian part of our trip is nearing an end so we head to the northwest of Italy, through Milan our last stay in Italy and on to Turin (another town that the travel agent advised against going to). The train trip to Turin was uneventful travelling through some beautiful countryside.
Once we arrived in Turin and found out where our hotel was (only a very short walking distance) we walked to the hotel with our bags, thankfully they had wheels, once we had our room, and refreshed ourselves we went exploring.
Our hotel was well placed in the centre of town, close to all the major attractions, and not far from where the “Red Bus” commenced its travel we then booked our places for the following day. We also found where the Shroud of Turin was the one thing that Carol wanted to see in Turin, the reason for coming to Turin.
That night we also found a café where we could get a local pizza for dinner, not like the pizzas in Australia these were actually a little plain with fewer toppings they were however fantastic proving that you do not need hundreds of toppings to make a good pizza.
In the morning we boarded the first Red Bus of the day, this is a hop on hop off type of bus and the tickets last 24 hours, it is a good way to find the best sights in a town and lets you get off look around the attraction then get on a later bus to the next attraction, while on the bus there is a multi-lingual commentary (mostly pre recorded). The time between buses at that time was 30 minutes enough time to explore the highlights but not too long that you would run out of time at the end of the day if you explored every stop and some of the highlights were close enough to walk from one to the next which added to the experience.
For a city that we were told we would find very little of interest we were not disappointed in-fact we were delighted and in the end wished we could stay longer but our next hotel was booked as was out train trip to Amsterdam.
With all that I am finding eliminating some photos of Turin hard and any student of architecture will agree the mixture in Turin of old, through art deco to reproduction medieval is amazing be it religious or commercial or domestic so I apologise for the size of the gallery.
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