So, I have to eat my words. Dad already said "I told you so", so no more of that is necessary. The party was actuslly fun! Valentina and her boyfriend Glauco came and picked me up at home, and then we drove around to Amedeo's other niece Michaela's house and picked her up. Then we went out for dinner at this pizza place, and I can honestly say that I have absolutely no idea how they eat so much over here. I thought I was a big eater, but they made me ha...

I was too tired last night to write anything, so today is accounting for yesterday too. Yesterday was the first time that I've been let out alone in central Turin. I caught the metro (very easy because there's only one line) into the city and, armed with three maps, tried to find my way to the Mole Antonelliana which is the building that holds the Museum of Cinema. I got a wee bit lost, but really I only had to follow one road so it was ok, and the museum was ve...

Morning Temperature: -3 Afternoon Temperature: 5 Today started out quitely - no one had to get up for work or for school, so everyone slubbed around this morning, and we had Italian MacDonals's for lunch (literally Italian - I had a burger that you can't actually get in any other country). After that we needed something to do and it was really sunny and clear, so we decided to go and have a look at La Superga which is a huge church-type place on a hill above th...

Morning temperature: -2 Afternoon temperature: 5 This morning Meredith and I went out for breakfast and coffee with a few of her friends from the boys' schools. I honestly have no idea how Italians stay so small, because pastries with custard in the middle are for sure what Dad would call SOYA food. It was really nice - we went to what they call a Bar, which is like a little cafe but this one was underneath a school. There was no one there except us for most of...

Temperature High: 2 degrees. Oh god. We went to the Museo Egizio today, which was really cool. There were sarcophagi and mummies and canopic jars and lots of captions that had both english AND italian, so I knew what was going on the whole time. There will be photos on Facebook soon so that you can see what I mean. To get there, we parked the car and then took a bus and a tram and the metro (so cool) and got quite lost. Thankfully, Meredith isn't afraid to ask f...