So here I am in Torino, Piemont, for a one-day trip with the family. Got there at 10 in the morning, and until now, I have seen h&m, COS, Zara (and another one not worth being mentione), and had a bowl of something inspired by japanese kitchen.
According to maps, I haven’t moved fuether than 4 minutes from the starting point.
So much for holidays.
According to maps, I haven’t moved fuether than 4 minutes from the starting point.
So much for holidays.
I dont understand all that tourism any more, especially since western consumerism is spreaded all over the planet like a plague.
Everywhere you go, its crowded with restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping centers and all other money grabbing crap. And dont even think you can park your car, or get a drink of water, or go into toilet without paying or buying something.
Like going from one beggars pit to another.
Around my town theres alot of nature, so these days, when weather is nice, I just sit on my old moped and cruise around the countryside.
Everywhere you go, its crowded with restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping centers and all other money grabbing crap. And dont even think you can park your car, or get a drink of water, or go into toilet without paying or buying something.
Like going from one beggars pit to another.
Around my town theres alot of nature, so these days, when weather is nice, I just sit on my old moped and cruise around the countryside.
He's not that far from places like that (Monte Bianco, 4810m, the tallest mount in Europe and many other natural wonders of the Alps)
Have a visit to the Egyptian Museum, the Mole Antonelliana, the Royal Museums, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud. You can go also to The Museum of Criminal Anthropology, which is an interesting, even though a bit dark, site.
Gaetano.
Have a visit to the Egyptian Museum, the Mole Antonelliana, the Royal Museums, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud. You can go also to The Museum of Criminal Anthropology, which is an interesting, even though a bit dark, site.
Gaetano.
Thanks for the tips, Gaetano. Problem is, my kid‘s thirteen and totally negating anything culture (or of my like). Had I known about the criminal museum, I‘d could have catched her attention, it would have suited her tastes. We’re already back in our stay in Asti, where we had a fine, modest dinner and a rest. (We’re here because my wife has business in the proximity…)
Turin seems to have that royaal grandezza that make people drool and forget their (our) nothingness.
It’s quite impressive I must say, and I like to look around and ask myseld what people these were, able to build things as big (and braggy) as that… what was his name again? Leopold or something…
Those place make my anarchist‘s blood sparkle 🥳.
But I in fact really prefer small and forgotten places.
Turin seems to have that royaal grandezza that make people drool and forget their (our) nothingness.
It’s quite impressive I must say, and I like to look around and ask myseld what people these were, able to build things as big (and braggy) as that… what was his name again? Leopold or something…
Those place make my anarchist‘s blood sparkle 🥳.
But I in fact really prefer small and forgotten places.
Don’t worry, they’ll be there with their Starbucks soon enough.
With the way things are going on this planet the polar caps may be the only inhabitable regions pretty soon…that’s if there’s any thing left after they melt
One of our teenagers nearly ruined a trip to Japan I just came back from. All they care about is selfies and shopping.
I have a fix though: It’s the last time I go on vacation with them.
Lesson learned. Problem solved.
Another member here told me to stop whining—what do I do now?
We were thinking about alba. Will also look at langhe! Tanto grazie!
(My disinterested kid ind the landscape and my wife’s business, sort of)
@ElArte yes, precisely! (And I am lucky, we’re just a couple hundred miles from home, can’t imagine what it would have been if it had been Japan)
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Nah, it‘ll be more like a fusion of the blade runners f*##edup cities and interstellars f#**edup countrysides
Maybe some free thermal open air bath like Saturnia
https://www.visititaly.eu/places-and-tours/top-5-of-the-natural-thermal-baths-in-italy
https://www.visititaly.eu/places-and-tours/top-5-of-the-natural-thermal-baths-in-italy
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That place It's far enough from Piedmont, about 400 or 500km, but it's a strange and beautiful site. Water is hot and having a bath in that sulphurous water is really hard! Silver immediately turns completely black but after the bath you feel really well!
