We travelled to Turin in Thursday29th April. We flew from edinburgh to Milan Malpenso Airport. The flight lasted two and a half hours. It was very smooth. It was also very spectacular as we crossed the snow covered Alps partially shrouded in white clouds.
We landed smoothly. The TFP had kindly managed to arrange a minibus to drive is to Turin, a drive of nearly 2 hours.
It was my first visit to Turin.
Just like Rome, the streets were busy and crowded, with rush hour traffic. No quarter is asked or given!
We parked a short distnace for the first hotel, the St Carlos.
When we reached there, we discovered that preparations were underway in the Piazza for a vist by Pope Benedict on Sunday. Sadly we would be on our way home as he would be arriving.
Dr Dunn, Neil and I then walked a further 15mns or so to our hotel, the Hotel Centro.
The others came to so we all knew our way between the 2 hotels.
Once we had settled in, we went out to look for aplace to eat.
A lady with a large dog guided us to a little restaurant where we had a tasty and inexpensive meal with some local red wine.
We then retired for the evening, and to prepare for tomorrow's conference, and our chance in a lifetime to see with our own eyes The Shroud of Turin.
The photos show,...arriving malpenso
the Alps
Dutch Coastline
leaving Edinburgh
wrong order of photos.....sorry....
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