Enrico's Travel Blog

Wednesday & Thursday, April 15th and 16th, 2026 Sonoma > San Francisco > Tokyo, Japan   This two-day transfer actually begins on Monday or Tuesday with packing and repacking for the trip. We have preordered a Blacklane car and driver to take us to the airport. We are on an airline we haven’t taken before, All Nippon Airways or ANA. ANA was founded in 1952, so it is as old as we are, as a Japanese Helicopter and Airplane Transports. It was renamed in 1957 when it merged with F

Saturday Torino, Italia   Good morning. Beginning to think about leaving and heading back to California to get ready for the Japan Cruise in April. This morning we went with Pietro, Serra and the girls to Torteria 40 for cappuccino and cornetto (brioche and croissant are not necessarily the samething, and cornetto is something different, here in Torino the proper term is cornetto not brioche, although everyone seems to understand it and no one has ever corrected me). Torteria

Friday Torino, Italia   We did nothing this morning. Laundry was all done, packing in preparation for leaving on Monday done as much as it could be, so we’ll just chilled in the apartment until 11. Then it was time to go and get something for lunch. Mary wanted to stop at Calzedonia and Legami (a place similar to Flying Tiger). We went online and checked out places for lunch in the vicinity of those two stores.   Turns out that Calzedonia and Legami are both on Via Giuseppe G