I was in Turin overnight to see some more of my family, and I won't bore with details or pictures of them, because I know you couldn't care less. Turin is a really beautiful city with some really incompetent pickpockets (you could see them coming from a mile away, and then they almost stole my dirty underpants), and its reputation as an ugly industrial town isn't deserved. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the city.

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Here's Parco Valentino, a beautiful man-made green area that stretches along the Po River, from one end of Turin to the other.

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There's a fake medieval castle in the park. It was built in the 1800's, and I don't know why they felt a need to put one there. There's an exhibition on the history of Castello Valentino inside the castle walls, but it's all in Italian.

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Another photo of inside the castle walls. The castle "town" was a lot more photogenic than the castle proper.

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It's not a tree. It's made of wrought iron, and it's a fountain.

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The Po River, as seen from the park.

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Caffé Torino, the oldest bar in Turin. It's baroque and gorgeous. They also have a candy shop which is even more baroque and gorgeous, and also out of focus on my camera.

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Left over from the Winter Olympics. I walked through the whole city, but didn't see a single Cherokee.