Today was a day of travel and rest. Tom, Barb, Rick and emJay caught a train from Alessandria to Torino. Our hotel, the Hotel Genova, is a short walk from the train station. And this is how towns look here during August holidays . . . ghost towns!

Our room is spacious enough, with a Juliette window in the bedroom looking to the street below, and a tiny balcony accessible via the bathroom!

The funniest thing about our room is the ceiling, which makes it look like we are part of a bigger building . . . the Sistine Chapel?!

Many restaurants and businesses are closed for the holiday! Of five regularly recommended restaurants near our hotel, only one was open tonight: Slurp! In spite of the funny name, Slurp was a fine restaurant. Here are fresh grilled vegetables with salmon.

We shared two desserts per couple, a creative form of tiramisu, and panna cotta with crumbled chocolate  bits on top!

Slurp! has a specialty . . . sugar cubes soaked in flavored grain alcohol. They packed a punch! Supposedly a digestive. Read about making them here.

Motorcycles have their own special parking areas!

While walking back to our hotels, we passed these community e-cars recharging. Turin is doing the right thing!