daily walk

Walking every morning... Just realized today my Italian phone month expired 6 days ago, but i don't need to buy more until i leave here. I know the north half of Turin so well, and it's a grid, and the river orients you, i can just... go. Speaking nothing but Italian, and for normal daily interactions, I'm seldom being pegged as a foreigner now. 

nobody in Italy is up at 6:30 a.m. but me, almost.

I stopped by my corner cafe, which has amazing cappuccino and possibly the best cornetto I've had! Good thing I didn't find it sooner.. though big cornetto, cappuccino, bicchierino di seltz, and seated at a table is less than 3 euros... (Stand up, and 2 euros) So you wouldn't go broke. 

The bar gas been there 150+ years. Coffee in morning, beer and wine in late afternoon.

If you travel in Europe you're generally best off sticking to restaurants that have No English on menus. Here's a place's two blocks from me. They specialize in gnocchi.