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  • Soul Kitchen, fine vegan dining in Turin

    Soul Kitchen, fine vegan dining in Turin

    Soul Kitchen is located in Centro in Tuin (Torino) with an unassuming frontage on Via Santa Giulia. We walked there from our hotel. One of our friends traveling from Lausanne with us to Torino in Northern Italy, is a vegan. He was so happy with this fine dining vegan restaurant that he went there a

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  • National Cinema Museum at Mole Antonelliana, Turin

    National Cinema Museum at Mole Antonelliana, Turin

    Turin (Torino) was the first stop of our journey from Lausanne to Tuscany. One of the two National museums we visited in Torino was the National Cinema Museum (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) housed in the Mole Antonelliana, an iconic landmark that we had not heard of before our visit. Since the work started in 1863,

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  • Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)

    Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)

    After the pandemic faded in Europe, we took a road trip from Lausanne (in Switzerland, where we lived) to Tuscany. The 2-week long round trip took us across the Alps, south to the Mediterranean Sea where we made stops along the Ligurian coast before heading inland towards Tuscany. The towns where we stayed overnight were

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  • The Millennium series – The Girl Who Lived Twice

    The Millennium series – The Girl Who Lived Twice

    Apart from travel-related topics, we occasionally talk about books on the blog. I(Chris) just finished “The Girl Who Lived Twice” (original title in Swedish: Det som inte dödar oss, or ’She Who Must Die’) in audiobook format. This book is the sixth in the Millennium series that was started by Stieg Larsson.  The English translation of

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Notable Bookstores of the World – Series 1

Familiar food we (as travelers) ate while in Tokyo

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