Report From Torino: Bonjour From France

Report From Torino

Check out our first hand reports of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Torino (Turin), Italy. We'll try to post every few days depending on time and access to the net. Our journey will begin with brief stays in Rome and Florence before we head up to the Piedmont region in northwest Italy for the Olympic games. We will then head to France and Switzerland before returning home via Milan, Italy. The entire journey will last three weeks. I hope you enjoy our reports.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Bonjour From France

Hi Everyone! We are now in the town of Saint Jean de Maurienne, located in a beautiful mountain valley. We are in a nice quaint hotel called St. Georges which offers free high speed wireless internet (Woo hoo!!)

The French Alps

Yesterday, Steve and I skied at Val Thorens, which as part of Les 3 Vallees, makes up the world's largest ski area. The views of the French Alps were incredible, as were the snow conditions. All in all it was an awesome day of skiing. (View photo of Steve on the slopes of Val Thorens)

Today, we are taking the early part of the day off to catch up on laundry and email (Oooh! Exciting blog!)

More Olympics
Prior to leaving Italy, we went to Men's Snowboard Cross (see Snowboard Cross photo below) and Women's Hockey, both of which were extremely exciting to watch. Tonight we will commute into Italy for the evening to see the Women's Bobsled competition at Cesana (pronounced Che sana). Coming up this week we have

Snowboard Super G and Women's Freestyle Aerials.

Coming Up...
Friday we leave France for Switzerland where Steve and I plan to
ski at Verbier.

But for now, Au Revoir!

4 Comments:

At 10:21 AM, Anonymous said...: Leno said he thought the boarder cross was a great event... and that if any team would be able to win it would be the Mexican Team...
At 10:26 AM, Anonymous said...: Julie and I have been watching a bunch of the events on TV. The HD coverage is fantastic; however, several of the commentators really suck!

A Torino secialty, I am told, is a coffee drink which is loaded with chocolate, cream and expresso. They call it, I think, Bitzarine... spelling is probably incorrect.

Have one for me!

Bill Maurey
At 11:59 AM, Anonymous said...: hey...bring me back a real Swiss army knife, OK?
At 10:54 PM, Anonymous said...: Thanks for the updates, photos and commentary! Looks like the weather is holding up, which the media initially reported to be a concern. Skiing looks very good, and I assume the food and wine are great too. Are you doing much at night? Meeting many Americans? Any comments on the Bryant Gumbal remarks? Enjoy Switzerland and happy trails...!

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Bonjour From France

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