by eric | Dec 27, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
The Turin Piazza della Repubblica is a large square that was right around the corner from our apartment. Bisected by trams, it is a bustling spot. At night it is a large parking lot, and each morning it is transformed into the Mercato di Porta Palazzo with hundreds of...
by eric | Dec 26, 2025 | International Travel, Travel
Turin is a beautiful city but almost everything has an entry fee, and several of the main attractions are expensive. Like many cities they offer a card that gets you into multiple sites. The 24-hour version limits you to three free entries, so we opted for the 72-hour...
by eric | Dec 23, 2025 | Travel
For the final leg of our Fall European 2025 tour, we spent a week in Turin / Torino. Located in the northwest of Italy, close to the Alps, it is the capital of the Piedmont region, and a part of Italy we hadn’t yet visited. Turin was a royal capital for several...
by eric | Dec 22, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
For our last Saturday in Bologna we decided on a daytrip to Ravenna, a coastal city known for its mosaic-clad 5th/6th century UNESCO world heritage sites. It is a little over an hour from Bologna by train, and our arrival was uneventful. Leandra had bought our tourist...
by eric | Dec 20, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
For this day trip I wanted to see San Marino, as microstates are fascinating, and it would be my 60th country visited. Public transportation would have been inconvenient, so we decided to get a rental car. That prompted us to look at additional stops along the way and...