Addio Torino

English poet Robert Browning wrote: Open my heart and you will see, engraved inside of it, ‘Italy’.

Historical House of Savoy

When Italy unified in 1861, Turin became the 1st capital of Italy and the House of Savoy became its King.

In the spirit of Hallowe’en, we had to mention the Door of the Devil, Torino’s most curious attraction.

Mark Twain loved Torino’s extraordinarily wide streets, prodigious piazzas and spacious sheltered porticos.

It is raining again in Rome

And here we sit drafting this poem

For sites yet to see, it’s wet we will be …

Natale di Roma is the birthday celebration of the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC.

We are in the world’s smallest country, the world’s largest church and the superpower of the Catholic Church.

We are Olympians!! Well … at least we are staying in the former 1960 Summer Olympic Village in Rome.