Supermarket across road
Comfy Bed Inn Vanchiglia
Dinner Italian style Inn Vanchiglia
It's a long walk to the train at Milan airport, and we can only purchase a ticket from Malpensa to Milan Central, not all the way to Turin, as the airport train line is a different company to Trenitalia, the Italian line. Milan Central is chaotic and I have to run through the station, up and down stairs to the even more chaotic ticket office where I purchase 2 tickets on the regional train to Torino. After racing back upstairs, we miss one train by 3 seconds, and have the choice of two others to Turin. Apparently there's 3 types of trains from Milan to Turin. Fast, slow and very slow. We jump on the closest train, which turns out to be the slow train, and 2 hrs later we arrive in Turin, having passed through miles and miles of flat rice paddys, probably arboria rice for their risotto.
Turin is very leafy and hilly compared to Milan. My map of Turin is totally inadequate and as it's rush hour at 6pm at Turin Porto Neuro station, we walk to teh taxi stand and 15 minutes later we're at Inn Vanchiglia. Marco greets us at the large front entrance door to the old building and shows us to the renovated apartment that suits us perfectly. Kitchenette, comfy bed, super fast WiFi and a supermarket across the road, where we go asap to buy some Italian salads, meats cheeses, wines and a 15 Euro bottle of Cointreau (about $22, compared to $60 in Oz). We immediately feel as though we're back in the routine of traveling in Europe and after a leisurely dinner of salad, wine and cheese, its 10pm when we're off to bed.