Turin and Brionson

Our second excursion out of our little department of Isere was to Turin, Italy to see the ancient Egyptian artifact museum. The voyage to Turin was gorgeous. We were in a valley high up in the alps and the clouds rested right up on the tips of the mountains.



Ok so maybe not right up on the tips, but you get what I'm trying to say. Also on the way to Turin we went through the tunnel that leads from France to Italy, that was pretty cool. After you peak over this hill on the auto route you can see the city of Turin.
Turin is a gorgeous city and if I had the choice I would stay there all year. It has such a great atmosphere and the architecture is gorgeous. We did not have our faithful GPS Marge, so we got lost within the first five minutes of entering the city.
After navigating the cities every nook and cranny we finally stopped at our hotel in a really sketch part of town. To put an image into your mind about how sketch sketch is here is a description for you. It was grubby, as soon as you walked out of the nice part, the only thing you could here was drunk Italians, there was a guy dressed as a girl who would stand on a corner of a street and then would disappear with random guys. Oh and our hotel, do not stay at the Hotel du Mondi in Turin. I wish I had taken a picture for your benefit. If you have ever stuffed three people into a cardboard box then that is pretty much how big our hotel room was. Oh and the view was... hard to describe, so here it is.

If your lucky you can see what our neighbors are having for dinner. So the hotel might have been a bad choice.

After we got settled in at the hotel we ambled over to the museum. We got are tickets and went into the first room. The first room stunned me and it was kind of a forshadower of what to come. Here are some of the better pictures I took while in the museum.

Egyptian picture

The head of Cleopatra

Egyptian Pharoh

Egyptian Pharaoh making an offering to the gods.

Me posing in front of a really cool sphinx with my Wake Forest shirt on.







After the museum we went to get some gelato an Italian specialty. That night we went to a very nice restaurant where I hit on the waitress.


Day 2
The next day we woke up and packed up from our crummy hotel singed out and went on our way back to France. We drove up the mountains and we came upon this great little town called Clavier where we ate lunch and where I played soccer. Then we motored on down to Brionson the highest city (key word) in all of Europe. When we arrived there we settled into our hotel and then we took a nap, then my Dad and I took a walk up into the old city. The view was gorgeous and we learned a lot of history, like there were 3 cities and they all supported each other in times of war. Also Brionson was a very important city because it regulated trade from France to Italy or vica versa. That nuit we went to the hotel restaurant and met a man who was biking from England do Sicily because he did not like to fly. He is now my dads official hero.

Day 3
On day 3 we woke up to a very nice breakfast, then we flew the coop. On the way home we had to stop like a million times to take really neat pictures.

Until next time folks, sorry if there are TO many pictures, this was one of my favorite trips.

W.