Wednesday. We decided to fork out for wifi here at our hotel in Turin, so I can write a quick message. It has to be quick because I'm nearly falling asleep. We arrived in Italy on Tuesday night after a long day of train-swapping and a very long journey through a tunnel I think we were in France when we went in and in Italy when we came out. Our hotel was a short walk from the station. Bardonecchia was pretty quiet as the summer season is over and the ski season has not begun. When we walked around town this morning most of the shops were shut, thought Lorraine did find a candle shop where she made a few purchases. We bought some postcards and stamps and wrote them while enjoying a cup of cioccolato. After lunch we headed back to the station and checked the platform for our train. Dammit! It was platform 2, which meant lugging the cases downstairs, under the tracks and upstairs again. There were no seats on the platform and we were very early, so it was a long wait. Lorraine decided to go for a walk, so she went back to the station entry only to find that the sign now said platform 1. So we had to move the luggage again. Lorraine finally worked out how to work the disabled lift so that saved one lot of stair-climbing.we had fabulous views of the alps as we travelled towards Turin. A little snow on some peaks, deep valleys, and villages which look like Swiss chocolate boxes. Turin was the city that Lorraine wanted to visit as she thought it would be interesting to see the Shroud of Turin. We asked at the hotel desk, only to discover that the shroud is on view for one month everybten years or so. This is neither the month nor the year. So much fornthe shroud, we went and had a gelato instead. Tomorrow we go to Moneglia for the big gathering of friends of the Whites. It will be pretty incredible to meet so many friends so far from home, and they will all have travel tales to tell. Can't wait!