Alps

Mountains and glaciars

Hiking up the wrong route!

On top of Colle du Grun

Bees nesting in an abandoned car

Too beautiful to be edible

The last part of our summer vacation was spent in the French Alps hiking and climbing. To be more exact we were in the valley of Valgaudemar in the Ecrins national park. I have to say we were really lucky because it stopped raining when we arrived and it did not rain (much) for the whole week while we were there.

Every day consisted of a different activity. We went hiking up mountains and saw lots of animals (cow, sheep, marmots, and an ibex). We looked for raspberries and made a pie with them. We went mushroom hunting. We (actually not me) found some genepì and made genepì liquor (I actually did the easy part).

I was a really nice week and I can't wait to go back!

Food

Grilled eggplants with mint

Stuffed tomatoes

Marinated sardines

Just a few pictures of some typical italian antipasti. These were made by one of my mother's friends who happens to be a really good cook. They were delicious!

Egyptian Museum

Reading hieroglyphics

Very very old bread

Eyes to see the river

Cats!

Crocodile

On the way to the museum

In 1824 the king of Italy Carlo Felice founds the Egyptian Museum in Turin with 5628 Egyptian artefacts gathered by Bernandino Droveretti. The museum is entirely dedicated to Egyptian art and artefacts. The visit begins in the black statue room. Here it's possible to see Sphinxes and imposing statutes against a dark background. The visits proceeds upstairs, where mummies and artefacts are kept in 19th century cases. One of my favorite exhibits has always been the mummified cats and animals.

Italy

Ivrea, Italy

Lago Sirio

Bus in Turin

Piazza San Carlo, Turin Italy

Gelateria popolare at night

Traffic signs around Turin

Via Barbaroux, Turin Italy

This year the first two weeks of August were spent travelling between Italy and France. The first stop was at my mom's house in Turin, Italy. Finally after weeks of bad weather, the sun was out and we were able to walk around the city and we found lots of traffic signs with these little men pasted onto them. It was quite cute. As always I have to go and eat ice cream at my favorite ice cream place: la gelateria popolare.