Our last few days in Turino

Over the last few days we have been exploring more of Turino. Today we jumped on a train and travelled to a small nearby town called Alba. It is well know for truffles (which are a type of mushroom and very expensive) and wine. No tours were running though cos it is not tourist season so we just wandered around, had a yummy lunch and did some window shopping. All the shops close around lunch time and then open about 3 o'clock.

We didn't really take many photos today but this is where we had lunch. I would give our lunch today 4 out of 5 stars.

When we got back to Torino we went to the Cinema (movie) Museum. We had tried to go on three other times. Once it was closed and the other times there were very long queues and we didn't feel like waiting. They had a special exhibition about Academy Award (Oscar) winning actresses + lots of other interesting things....like animation, special effects, movie posters, how olden days 'moving pictures' were made and optical illusions. I am not a big movie buff - I always seem to have trouble staying awake :) but I found it quite interesting.

 Look...Amy can stand on her head - or, is it an optical illusion??

Amy with some pictures of famous actors/actresses. She is next to Heath Ledger - a famous Australian actor.

John and Amy with one of the movie props. I am not sure which movie though ... oops!

We are heading to a town called La Spezia tomorrow where we can do a famous walk along the Cinque Terra coastline. There should be some good pictures from there.