Enrico's Travel Blog

October 2, 2026 Friday Torino, Piemonte, Italia Had a good night’s sleep. Slept until almost 06:00. Showered, shaved, and went down to breakfast. Breakfast here has a lot of choices, but it was just some fruit, and a ham and cheese omelette. The machine-made cappuccino is just that, machine made. Back in the room Mary got up, we had tea and looked at our emails, worked on the blog. We decided to take a walk around the Quadrilatero, the oldest part of Torino. It wasn’t com

October 1, 2026 Thursday Torino, Piemonte, Italia Good morning. We agreed to be at Serra’s at 09:00 to watch the girls until the nanny arrives at 10:30. We were just a few minutes late getting to Serra’s. Mary left me with the girls at 10:00 to get her hair done. Luisa just sat and watched cartoons. Amadea sat for a little while, then Serra left and Amadea went into full melt down. Nothing seemed to please her. Rocking, singing (ok my singing is so great but I had to try so

September 30, 2026 Wednesday Torino, Piemonte, Italia Although yesterday was a travel day, we almost made it to 10,000 steps, just about 200 short. We would have made it if we had walked back to the hotel from Serra’s, but the heavy suitcases made that impossible. Yes, the 10,000-step target is not based on clinical research. It is all a catcher marketing slogan from a Japanese company in 1965 when they introduced the Manpo-kei pedometer in 1965. Manpo-kei translates to "10