Springtime in Turin

I just recently added the trip to the Slow Food University below so things are a bit out of order. This is April 2016. 

Driving in Turin, we came across this funny little car carrying a funny little woman in a beret. 

BRUNCH! You don't see it much in Turin and Tim loves it. Our new favorite place to have brunch is called Slurp. We sat outside. I ordered eggs and sausage/bacon. She didn't ask me how I wanted my eggs. I assume they don't do them more than one way. The sausage came curled up on a skewer and the eggs came baked in a small cast iron pan. 

We sat in the Nehero, which is the outside glassed in patio enclosure. Below is olive oil in a can.

Red wine with brunch, along with housemade nutella. YUM. This is what they called zuccherini, sugar cubes in 98% alcohol, flavored with coffee beans, lemon, lime or chiles. They pack a punch! 

The funky interior of Slurp. 

Another of my favorite places along the River Po. It's a restaurant called L'idrovolante. Beautiful views, pretty good food! 

  

The view from our windows down onto a neighbor's deck, along with gnomes! 

Not sure what these trees are. Very weird, black and gnarly. 

Driving around town to the Piazza. 

We came across an antiques fair across a bridge on the other side of the hill in an area called Castiglione Torinese. 

Lunch from an Italian food truck included cheesy mushroom polenta, Tim had a burger and a beer. My drink was called Chinotto, which apparently is a kind of fruit. Tasted like Pepsi.

My favorite place to take a walk on a beautiful day is called Parco Valentino. Gorgeous. 

It is amazing to see what people do to enjoy the day in the park. 

Not sure what this woman is doing but the photographers were all around her.

Stables, I think for police horses. 

More views around the park. 

 Borgo Medievale, just gorgeous inside and out. 

For my birthday we took a drive to check out the Universita di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo in Pollenzo, not far from Turin. It is the Slow Food University where students are not taught about fancy culinary techniques but sustainability and responsibly producing food products. 

They take the students on over 100 field trips all over Italy where they learn about cheese making or raising pigs or farming techniques. 

Their website https://www.unisg.it/en/

A church right across from the campus. 

A map of campus. Naturally, there was a restaurant on campus but it wasn't open at the time. 

Beautiful wisteria growing in the outdoor halls of the classrooms. 

Imagine going to school here...

The university's wine museum - some cool chairs they had there. In the museum, they displayed each regional wine with a little jar showing the soil in which it was grown and explained its traits. Obviously, you could purchase wine there as well. 

The whole museum was climate controlled. 

We bought a little wine bottle holder. 

Such a cool place, even just to visit.