Impressions of Turin

 We puddled through heavy rain on our walk to the station in Bergamo.

But the trip itself was easy and we felt good about Turn as soon as we arrived. It felt spacious, calm and the sun was shining. The station itself seemed magnificent.

We've spent a very enjoyable day moseying through the city with its wide boulevards and spacious, aged piazzas.

This is the chapel that houses the Shroud of Turin - not a tourist in sight, the building closed, no mention of the famous contents and overall, an anticlimax. Neil commented he thought they must all be over it!!

In the same complex of royal buildings and museums, there are the remains of the city wall from Roman times - 25BC to be exact, in the reign of Caesar Augustus. Here he is (presumably a more modern statue), but it's amazing to think that this wall was standing before the birth of Christ and well before the 1960s red brick brutalist era, which Neil originally thought dated this artifact!!!

This car is, literally, as long as it is wide! Brilliant for city parking.

We've seen a couple of these beautiful glass ceilinged shopping arcades.

The river Po.

And of course, no visit to Italy would be complete without an Aperol Spritz and a straw made of pasta.

We've had a lovely dinner in a local piazza (Spanish tapas, as it happens!). Tomorrow we begin our four-day walk in the Piedmont Alps and look forward to sharing our adventure once we're back online!!

Till then, Ciao!!