We checked out from Hotel San Giorgio in Rome after breakfast that followed the Mass at the lobby. It was a very exhilarating long trip by bus. We left Rome at 7:45 a.m. and arrived at Turin at around 8:00 p.m. with almost three hour stop over.
We passed Florence where we bought some gifts for the children. The Filipina wife of the Italian owner gifted me with a beautiful leather wallet.
A bus ride was enjoyable and interesting. Scenarios changes every now and then. It was like watching a fast-paced movie. Both sides of the obviously very clean highway were romantically enchanting and generally very green. There were beautiful houses here and there amongst plantations of different orchards and flowers.
I counted 115 tunnels penetrating the bases of big, wide mountains. After dinner at Restorante Alberoni we billeted at Forte Agip Hotel.
Some of our previous companions did not join us to Turin. They stayed in Rome to go back to Manila the following day. We were 14 left to continue the pilgrimage.
With the Cebu group out, the fun was somehow diminished much more so, because we have been walking a lot and were not completely freed from jet lag due to constant change of hotel. We also had to adjust to different food styles and unfamiliar recipes being offered to us at different restaurants. As we went on I tried to assess which one had greater influence, the spiritual aspect of the pilgrimage or the fun of shopping and hopping to different places, being exposed to different people.
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