On the way from Vienna back to Turin September 24, 2016
Back at our place in Turin...walk towards the river and you'll start to see the tents pop up in Parco Valentino for Salone del Gusto,
a wonderful festival of food put together by the Slow Food movement.
Just about every country has a booth featuring foods of their, region, to taste and sample or to purchase. This is a booth featuring lots of saffron.
This is the Castello Valentino, where you can get information and press credentials
The most enormous mortar and pestle for making pesto. You can't tell how big it is.
Probably two feet wide and two feet tall. Wow.
Corporate sponsors have booths as well. This was a pasta company with food to purchase.
Some vendors had booze to try!
Colin arrived from the US to experience the festival on the second day.
His buddy here is a wild boar.
This company had amazing packaging for various food items including olives.
The pesto booth again.
Some homemade sausages and meat products made into sandwiches.
Blue salt from Iran
Love this company's sign!
CHEESE
CHEESE coated in herbs
This booth is from Brittany, France. Fresh oysters packed in seaweed.
We had to try these! We felt bad for the poor guy who had to stand and shuck each one!
Salt cod
Formaggio fiori or a flower made from cheese in an edible cone with brown honey on it.
YUM
Sprinkling nuts on dough before it's baked.
This guy made the BEST drinks...lemonade, tea...both with amazing flavors.
Enjoying the tea and checking his phone.
Bread being delivered to a booth.
This year it was amazing how much beer was being offered. Wine, not so much.
People relaxing in the park. We bought a scarf from Madagascar.
Food items made from hemp
This guy made tea all day in his booth
On our way back, we encountered another market featuring plants.
Dinner with Valeria and her family! Colin played Star Wars with Franceso!
Amazing dinner featuring pasta and Brasatto al Barolo, beef braised in Barolo wine.
YUM
Day two of the Salone del Gusto...took this picture for my best buddy Lisa!
I swear those Germans wear that clothing all the time. Haha.
I love to photograph doors. This one was adapted for easier use.
A bike to be used during the Salone, a Slow Food bike.
YUM. We got a couple sandwiches. On the right, salmon salad and the other is cooked sardines.
The crowds were unreal.
This guy was from the Lebanon booth talking about Freekuh, a grain that is grown there.
We bought a jar and made some. SOO good! Full of amazing flavor.
The new quinoa, even better.
Music and dancing everywhere.
We decided it was time to figure out the metro system. It's a five minute walk from the apartment, then we got to the train station and went shopping downtown.
Found the Bicerin Cafe and had to order a couple.
WOW.
Start with chocolate on the bottom. Just melted chocolate.
Layer with coffee.
Foamed milk.
Then top with whipped cream.
Serve with little cookies and a tiny glass of water.
Colin made chicken roulade with freekuh. Delicious!
Before we left we wanted to take a day trip to the Cinque Terre.
We took the metro to the train station
We stayed in a small town called Levanto, which is cheaper and less crowded.
Here's the beach there.
The sand is dark there so the color the sea glass just pops out at you.
It's obviously not an Italian pastime because we found tons of
cool stones and glass.
A really cool looking store in Levanto
View from our hotel
Near the beach in Levanto as we look for the launch for the ferry boat
Found it!
Waiting for the ferry to arrive...
Finally onboard. We sat on the top for a better view.
Monterosso is first
More people got on board....
Next stop Vernazza
There's the train that goes between each village. OR you can hike!
Corniglia Town is the only town without direct access to the sea. You have to walk 360 steps to get up to the town!
We started to get a bit nervous. Nobody was getting off but there were more and
more people getting on! We had seats but many didn't and we couldn't even see.
So we went down to the lower deck and contemplated getting off early.
Manorola
The red rock was stunning
Some dolphins greeted us along the way
The final town is Riomaggiore
Toward the end of the ride, a group of French people got on the boat and had
obviously hiked the entire distance. They were hot and sweaty, carrying backpacks
and were taking off their shoes and chatting.
Once we got to Riomaggiore, we had to figure out how to get back. There is no train from there so we had to get back on a ferry and got off at Vernazza since there wasn't a train to Levanto, where we had left our luggage. Then we had to get a train back to Torino from there.
EXCEPT that there was a train strike announced from 9pm that night to 9pm the next night!
What a nightmare! We waited so long for the train in Vernazza we had to take a later train to Torino through Genova. Tim had to come and pick us up in Genova since they told us the train to Torino was cancelled. Yikes.
Back to Vernazza
Waiting for the train in Vernazza.
Each window actually had a clothesline under it!
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