12 Days in Europe - Torino (day one)

I said farwell to Marseille early in the morning and hopped on a train to Niece. I only had time to walk out of the train station to take the picture and then it was time to go back and catch the train to Genoa. I had a couple hours to kill there so I walked down to the port, had some lunch, and had my first taste of italain gelato. Yum!
Later I hopped on the train to Torino for the last leg of my journey that day. As a Juve fan, I have been wanting to come to Torino for a long time now. It is also the home of Fiat as well as Nutella (that I did not know). There I met up with Philipe, a couchsurfer from Brazi that I would be staying with while I was in town.

We walked from the station to his place and I immediately noticed the old style architecture, piazzas and palazzos everywhere. We dropped off the bags and went on a walking tour of the city. There was some sort of celebration thatt day so the streets were packed with people everywhere. We checked out Palazzo Reale di Torino and then walked over to the Po river before turning back at the Piazza Vittorio Veneto.

On the way back we stopped by for an apertivo at one of the cafes. The idea is that during apertivo you pay for drink and snack food is provided for free. I expected peanuts and pretzels kind of snaks, but instead it was a big selection of meats, breads, cheeses, salads, and veggies. All that for just a pint of beer for eight euros. Oh, and did I mention the huge jar of Nutella?

Afterwards we met up with Phi’s friends frorm Brazil and went to Club 21. Not a big clubbing fun myself, I actually enjoyed it a lot (a number of vodka Red Bulls might of had something to do with that). We got out of there way past 3am and missed the last bus home so I got a night walking tour of Torino while it was drizzling.

marseille train station 150x112 12 Days in Europe Torino (day one)
niece train station 150x112 12 Days in Europe Torino (day one)
genoa christophoro colombo by the train station 112x150 12 Days in Europe Torino (day one)
torino philipe and his friends at club 21 150x112 12 Days in Europe Torino (day one)


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