Enrico's Travel Blog

Saturday Torino, Piemonte, Italia Sick Day. Slept 11 plus hours last night. Managed to get up enough strength to go downstairs and have some fruit, a brioche and a cappuccino. Felt awful. Mary left for Serra’s about 08:30. She is on duty from 09:00 until 12:00 while Serra and Pietro go for a meeting at Amadea’s school. The doctor came to Serra’s at 10:00 and checked out Luisa. Luisa has tonsillitis. So, apparently whatever I have wasn’t something Luisa shared with me. I w

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