Turin Thursday

This morning I went by bus (I’ve mastered the route map, where to sit, where the stops are written etc) to a stop NE of the centre. The Basilica di Superga is on top of a hill overlooking the city. There are many Savoy tombs and a memorial to the whole 1949 Torino football team whose plane crashed into the side of the hill. Juventus, the other Turin team, apparently sometimes chant ‘superga, superga’ to stir up the opposition. I would have thought that would spur them on. In 1884 a rack and pinion railway was built from Sassi ( the suburb I stopped at) to the top 460m higher. In 1934 the line was electrified and upgraded. The carriages have been renovated. It took about 20min up, and I had a look at the view, took some photos, and came back. I did not go the extra way up the hill to see the church. I got a different bus back deliberately to see different things and had another nice lunch at the fish place of the day before yesterday. This time I had lampuga which she said was in the tuna family. Wikipedia translates it as dolphinfish. I am none the wiser. It tasted good.
I had another glass of her arneis – a DOCG wine and have jut looked it up. Quite a few Australian wine growers are now growing it but the jury seems to be out on whether it will be the next big thing or just a passing fad in Australia. It has been grown here for centuries but originally just to blend with nebbiola grapes.

In the late afternoon, I went looking for a black bag. The nice ones were more than I wanted to pay. I did spend E1.5 on a book of Sudoku puzzles because I have run out of KenKens. I did have another fruit –based gelato – raspberry and lemon – delicious and bought some ready made salad for dinner. I watch ‘who want’s to be a millionare’ quite often . It is a bit tricky understanding the question sometimes.