Travelog for: Gaspode

Hi Mum!

Today, something magic happened! 

Francy told us that in Italy, on January 6th, all the children get a visit from the "Befana", an old lady (maybe a witch???) who flies on a broom and brings them candies and sometimes coal. It depends on how good the kid behave during the year.

But we've been very good kids last year, so the Befana can only bring us a lot of candies! 
We decided to wait for the Befana, so we hide on a shelf all night long. We were very well hidden, can you spot us?



Then, with the first lights of the day...

here she came!!!!!! 



She landed on the table and she looked around to make sure she was alone...



But we couldn't resist and popped out of our hiding place and went to greet her!!!



She looked quite surprised to see us! 

But she allowed us to look in her bag and take the candies! 



There were quite a lot of them, and we started tasting right away! 



Then the Befana had to go visiting other houses (she actually was quite late, as she was supposed to finish during the night... but she said she's getting too old to rush...  ).
So she flied away.

Goodbye Befana, we all hope we'll be in Italy to see you again next year!

Mmmm.... Christmas holidays are over now... and as I mentioned, my host Francy recently started a new job.

So, today we decided to go with her and help her getting things done!

We went with her in the office and started by turning the pc on, while she was having a coffee....



Then we helped with some difficult accounts... luckily we had a calculator!



And before the day was over, we gave the archived documents a new order.



Francy was very happy on how we helped her, so she organized a little "pizza party". We got our pizzas delivered home!



Working is not so bad! 

Hi Mum!
Yesterday Francy gave us the news: Leila had to reach her next host 

We all were pretty sad to say goodbye, but tries to help her getting ready to go!
She grabbed her letter to show to her next host, and then said goodbye.... 




Then we slipped the letter in the envelope...



... and then it was her turn! Goodbye, friend, maybe we'll meet again somewhere in the world!!!!



As she was inside the envelope, we started working around the envelope to seal it and let her travel safely... I hope we did a good job!



Have a nice holiday in Denmark, Leila!!!! 

Hi Mum!

My host is busier and busier in these days, but today she decided to take us to see an interesting exibition! 

At first, we walked to the river, to the beautiful Gran Madre Church.
We also went up its stairs and saw the charming statues and the lanscape from up there.



Here is today's destination: the Cappuccini Mount.



I was a bit disappointed at first, because when Francy told us we would go there, I was imagining tons of hot milk and coffee, which wouldn't have been a bad thing on such a cold day 
But when I told her, Francy laughed had and explained that the "Cappuccini" is a monastic order. 

Anyway, we climbed over the hill and could enjoy the view before going into the museum





The exhibition was about a Japanese population called Ainu. They live up in the North and are quite curious-looking 



We saw their clothes and their tools







Then we walked upstairs and we found out there was a panoramic terrace. Even it was very cold, we enjoyed looking to Torino from up above! 





We also walked into the Mountain museum, were we met some interesting guys... 




Unluckily we couldn't take any more pictures, as a guardian came and told us it's forbidden to take photos in the museum. How bad is that???? 

Hi Mum!

Today we had to say goodbye to Orkku Orava, the little squirrel... she's visiting Germany next!

I helped her in picking and writing a postcard for her next host...



... then we all hugged her and said goodbye. It was pretty sad, we spent so much time together!



Goodbye friend, hope you'll have a safe journey to new adventures!