Turin: Day 3

 

ciao! woa, didn't have time to update the past few days cos we had a super packed schedule with rehearsals, concerts and performances! pictures from day 3: there was time to wander about the city looking for new food places cos it was a free day! :D :D :D kind of overdosed on pasta though. the three main food groups of Italy are like, Pasta, Pizza and Gelato. hahaha. feels like that to me, at least. but i'm still enjoying all the food!

 

outfit: upcoming embroidered peter pan top and skirt on TheVelvetDolls! with my colorful loafers that got killed by a mountain (i will blog about that next time) and my weaved rainbow bag from Bimba & Lola.

more gelato loooveeee!!! Nocciola (hazel nut) and Yogurt flavour. 

walking to our lunch place! we refer to this as the "flag street" cos lots of flags and banners hang across the streets in this section of the city.

went to a more contemporary restaurant, and it's called "Eataly". how apt! it's like a grocery store with a restaurant inside!

getting our orders placed. most of the Italians know a little bit of English, so it's not really that tough to order food. a lot of the restaurants have English menus as well! :)

and the obligatory bread basket. i have eaten more bread the past 6 days than i have in the past 6 months. but it's really yummy and goes so well with the olive oil and balsamic vinegar!

shelves and shelves of food stuffs adorn the walls. they have a huge selection of everything from spices to jams to wines!

sauces all lined up prettily on the shelves.

me! good makeup day.

fusili pesto pasta that looks like super thick maggi mee, except green.

mozzarella and tomato pasta! yummers.

 

tagliatelle with vongole! one of my favouriteeee pastas this trip. been ordering it in almost every restaurant!

penne rabbit ragu. the sauce is tasty!

i love dining in groups. get to eat a little of everything! more pleasure for the tastebuds.

eating companions

with Fishy!

some of the other peeps had extra rehearsal in the hotel courtyard and here's a shot of them from the third storey.

 

then we went to watch a concert performance by some other choirs!

the Estonian choir

 

and the Swiss choir.

singing on the streets to appreciative audiences. 

and dinner! more pasta again. it's the easiest thing to eat in Italy, other than pizza!

vongole :D

some pesto pasta that looked like little green worms D:

agnolotti bolognese pasta, it has meat filling in it, and it's delicious!

gnocchi pasta in cream sauce. rarely found pasta in Singapore!

last picture of me and my outfit. in the hotel lobby! i like the lush and comfortable interior decor so much :D

i'll be returning to Singapore in just a few days time already! it feels like it's only been 6 or 7 days, but today is already day 12. having a lot of fun, but i can't wait to be home too! not so much looking forward to getting back to work though :( 

gonna post up more photos tomorrow, but if you follow me on Instagram, i've been updating with some pictures everyday!! :D so go and look for me @yinagoh on Instagram okay!

be back soon!!! bye!

Turin: Day 2

can't believe quite how quickly the days go by, and it's currently midnight of our 3rd day here in Turin! i've been good and have found time to edit some more photos, from our 2nd day, so here they are and i hope you'd enjoy looking at them! 

i'm just glad i have the time to sit down and document these days, every morning of waking up in a strange and wonderful land is a deliciously exciting experience i savor with my very being. feeling cobbled pavements beneath my feet, listening to people speaking languages that are incomprehensible to my ears, taking in the sights and sounds of a foreign city. it's an incredibly exhilarating whole new world, and i love it!

we look forward to breakfast every day: simple fare but oh-so-satisfying :)

baguette, scrambled eggs, ham, yogurt and muesli for breakfast every morning at the hotel! 

random flowers. purple and yellow. beautiful combination! 

something we don't do often enough in Singapore: to get around from place to place with our own two feet! it takes 20 minutes of leisurely walking to get to our rehearsal venue from our hotel. it's nice to have the luxury of time, and i think we spend at least one to two hours a day simply walking around and getting from place to place.. my feet are complaining from all the walking, but i actually enjoy it very much!

my comfortable pair of fuzzy zebra sandals that's been making their rounds on the cobbled pavements of Turin. they are from Sœurs! you still get 10% discount off when you quote my name, until the end of August! Sœurs is located at Cathay Cineleisure, #02-12.

rehearsal time. we rehearse for 3 hours every morning, and break for coffee in at the cafe next door, in between.

a chocolate croissant and expresso macchiato. need some caffeine to perk me up!

inside the cafe, it's just one of the many cafes peppered along the streets of Italy, it's hard to find bad coffee in Italy so you probably won't go wrong anywhere :)

Marissa and Fish! :)

after an exhausting morning rehearsal, we are all famished (or perhaps just greedy for more good food) and thus begins the search for our next meal: lunch! it's easy: we simply roam the streets and settle on any restaurant in sight. so far so good: i don't think i've actually tasted anything bad yet! when it comes to Italian food, nothing is ever quite close to the real thing. so cheap and good at the same time! always looking forward to our next meal!

a bolognese pasta stuffed with ragu (rabbit meat?!) the sauce is so meaty and rich and tangy!

vongole tagliatelle that won a thumbs up from everyone! i think we are definitely going back again for this dish.

ham and mushroom pizza, can't go wrong with this either!

on the other side of the table: 

and on our side.

we share all the food, so we get the best of both worlds! i love variety when it comes to food, and every meal hardly costs anything more than 9 or 10 euros (SGD15) after splitting the bill! yummy in my tummy.

and how else to walk off the gratifying lunch, but to walk and shop! seems like it's the perfect season for shopping, because every shop is on sale!!! there's a huge ZARA store just a couple streets away from our hotel, and we spent our afternoon shopping away! haven't got the opportunity to visit any of the luxury brand stores yet though, cos Turin is quite small and there aren't so many of those shops!

 

ZARA!

by the way, SALDI means "Sale" in Italian! now you know :D

SO CUTE! i still can't get used to seeing so many pooches on the streets and even in the shops! but they are all so well-behaved and adorable! how i wish i could bring my dogs around the shops in Singapore too! 

i wanted to buy more, but this is what i've got for myself so far!!! a pair of black shorts and a denim shirt that were less than 20 euros each, a pair of flats for only 13 euros, (all on sale from ZARA!) and a makeup palette from H&M for like less than 8 euros. cute daisies headband too, 

yay! pretty new buys :D 

when in Italy, do as the Italians do... eat lots of gelato!

i finally finally got my first taste of gelato this trip: we went a little gelato crazy on our last trip to Italy two years ago, but have decided to rein in our insatiable appetite for gelato just a little bit this time round! heh. Grom is a super well known gelato shop and it is deeee-leeee-cious! was so happy to find a Grom just 3 minutes away from the hotel, it's literally only around the corner!

a medium cup with three flavors costs 3 euros!

for our first cup: pistachio, yogurt and nocciola (hazelnut) flavors! oh i have missed nocciolla flavored gelato so so so much!!! we are now united.

YAY! first gelato of the trip!

 

happy happpyyyy!!!! didn't disappoint at all and now i would like to have more nociolla ice cream please, thank you very much!

we attended an opening singing session that was part of the Europa Cantat festival in the evening, and it was SO amazing! a sight that you'd be hard-pressed to see in Singapore. ranging from the young to the old, so many people all there to sing and listen in the open air arena the session was held at!

came prepared with our song books too!

while waiting for the session to start...

look at the crowds!! we didn't manage to get any seats, so to the ground we went :S

contest of the giant mouths

and the opening singing begins!! it is so fun, like a giant sing-a-long campfire session, and i just love how everyone is singing and moving along to the music!

there's even actions for one of the songs!

haha!

a wonderful sight to behold! music is such an integral part of their culture and they enjoy it so much. it was so fun to do the open singing session!! we'll probably go again another night!

the best way to end a long day of work and play: cup noodle party!

we are fast depleting our stores of cup noodles! it's time to hit the local supermarkets, maybe we'll find some instant pasta instead... hehe. 

i am going to bed now, and we have a morning off tomorrow, so i'll probably stay in our hotel room to get some work done! i'm so grateful for the Wi-Fi connection, been Skyping regularly with YZ and missing him from here, as well as being able to instagram and blog and check emails and all that! though right now i am really tired and am going straight to bed after completing this entry.

ciao ciao and good night! :)