What I did on each day:
16 Dec: In Toronto/Frankfurt. It was a very long day but I stayed awake for most of the time, so I got really tired. In Frankfurt, that cafe had pretty good burgers and fries.
17 Dec: I took the flight finally to Turin and it was fun seeing the Alps from the plane.
18 Dec: I met my friend. The market place in Turin was pretty lively but as I said it was quite messy after each day.
"Pam" was a famous supermarket chain and I bought biscuits that I still didn't finish as of early January. For the rest of the trip, I mainly relied on Pam, and less so Carrefour, for snacks and bottled drinks.
Essentially, that was my second day in the room at Giulio Cesare and it was a nice place and a budget choice.
19 Dec:
I started a spree of visiting museums. First, I went to the National Film Museum, and that was arguably the best one. There was Dario Argento's exhibition theme there. Apparently, Tarantino drew inspiration from this Italian producer's works. I also tried a VR headset there for the first time in my life. The program was Korean-German designed and it was a little story on a little girl who missed her father who was conscripted or something.
Mole Antonelliana, where this museum was, is itself a symbol of Turin, being a very tall museum building. I did not exactly try the elevator but did climb to about the 10th floor of a usual building.
Food: I visited 12 oz and later at night Tra Diavolo "eat pizza, make love".
20 Dec:
I woke up early to visit 2 museums, namely Juventus Museum (well, Serie A) and the Egyptian Museum where you could find Turin/Italy's biggest collection of Egyptian artefacts.
Juventus Museum is literally perfectly bilingual, and I believe it's because tons of foreign visitors toured there before. I was not normally partial to a football club but seeing Allianz Stadium was quite breathtaking. Quite a people would laugh at Juventus' current logo but I still bought a sweater. In Italy, you can tell if a product is made in Italy, and Italians do make it very clear.
Since it was a lot of walking in northwest Turin, I only took a break in Juventus area 12's shopping mall - so these folks in Venaria Reale actually shopped with Juventus on a daily basis - by taking a Burger King's meal. Like my friend would say, Italians in fast food do make sure fast food is ALSO Italian and palatable to Italians. So whether with Burger King or McDonald's, if not yet KFC, you get Italian fast food. Not a bad thing at all if you are ok with fast food, since in my perspective it's still better than undersized stuff in my native HK. I am not even an avid football fan myself, but Juventus did have famous players that you might be unsurprised to see in its hall of fame.
Because it got dark, I visited Palazzo Reale that was quite close to my room in central Turin. I found that, even though I was a history fan, antiques didn't interest me as much. However, it was a precious opportunity to see what the House of Savoy left behind in Italian history. Most of its palaces and heritage since the Middle Ages are located in Turin, among a few other places.
This palace was huge and there were hundreds of artefacts and primarily paintings. Unless you are into the garden, it's ok to visit it towards the evening.
At night, I visited Forno Ricca IV Marzo, again in central Turin, and I had this huge platter of ham and other snacks. This "snack" was far more food than a main dish. The pasta looked small in comparison.
The "appetizer" filled me up in a matter of 10 minutes. It was fun dining there, really. I wished to have been there for a third time.
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