How to Spend the Perfect 3 Days in Turin 🇮🇹 Is this Italy's Most Underrated City? / Nishi V

I'm so excited to be in Italy. We literally took the first flight out of Stansted airport this morning so we've kind of been up since like midnight. Don't ask but it is 10am here I think which means it's 9am UK time. We arrived at the hotel to drop off our bags and they very kindly said our room was ready so we were like perfect, freshened up a little bit, we're kind of starving and I'm desperate for a coffee. I only had one, didn't have one at the airport because I was like I'm going to Italy, I need good coffee in my life so I thought I'd wait until we arrive. Somebody walked into the lift but we're just leaving the hotel to go and explore and it is so beautiful here. I've got my google maps open and you probably won't be able to hear me but I need to navigate to where we're going. Is our first stop lunch or coffee? Brunch. Okay whatever we find. Eat first then coffee. Yeah good plan. I really just want to drink all the Aperols and go to all the aperitivos, just live my best life and one thing I absolutely love about Italy is I have to do zero restaurant research because everywhere will have vegetarian options. Why am I not wearing my sunglasses? Turin is home of the fiat, I think it was invented here and so was not quite Nutella but hazelnut chocolate so there's a lot of like Ferrero Rocher and Nutella here I think and it is absolutely stunning here. The walk here was really beautiful too but this is definitely where like all the tourists are and where it just feels like Italy. There's someone somewhere here playing some live music and it was just insane but look at this. So I think there's a cafe here that we need to go to. I've pinned it on google maps but I now can't remember if it's food or just a coffee. There's one over there and one somewhere there but we're just going to walk around and look at all the mountains you see like peeking between the streets. It's just so stunning. Oh my god this place is so adorable, this is called Cafe Torino. I was warned they might have a queue and they don't but it's actually just coffee and like sweet treats. I always forget that cafe with a double f means coffee here but it's just so cool and the whole place smells insanely good like coffee but should we get some food first and then come back here? Actually just get gelato from a hole in the wall, it's so cute. Oh I love this place. Stop! This is not the place to come if you're lactose intolerant is it? I love tiramisu so much, oh man. Ordered a couple of sandwiches for lunch, been the most gorgeous, no queue to get in here but it's only a queue if you're talented so that's a really good sign. Just look at these ceilings, they're so incredible and the couple in front of us were really helpful, they said that you don't need to queue if you just want to get a coffee because they do like loads of sweet treats and stuff here. If you wanted a table you'd have to queue which is what we've done because we want a bit for lunch. I don't know what the sandwich is going to be like because I feel like Italian sandwiches and maybe it's not too filling because I want to try bits of vegan while we go. We got a Aperol spritz, obviously a Campari spritz and then you get all these little sides, she said that's just bread, chips, some olives which is very exciting and two sandwiches. It's very crowded in here so we asked to move tables to the corner which is a bit nicer but a lot of people just come in here to order an espresso at the bar and just drink it on the go so it does tend to get quite busy. We've moved locations to Cafe Torino, the first place we've moved into. Oh we've ordered, thank you. I've just ordered an espresso macchiato with I need coffee so badly, it was just so Italian, like so much. Look at this, okay that's a Bitterin which is coffee, hot chocolate and cream I think, that's the traditional drink from Turin. I just got an espresso macchiato, really bad feeling every time I'm in a different cafe and I can't tell, I've just tasted a little bit of the foam but I really hope it's not dairy, I just need a strong cafe fix but can you try some? It's not So we're sat outside Cafe Torino and there's the tourist sculpture on the floor and we didn't notice it at first, you know drunk, and loads of people keep stamping on it or intentionally stamping on it in one area so I had to google it on Jax's phone, turns out this bronze iron statue is located near Piazza San Carlo which is where we are, opposite Cafe Torino, legend has it that trampling on the bull's genitals will bring good luck so do you want to trample on the bull's genitals Jax? They always say grab the bull by his horns but this time grab the bull by his balls Just walking down Via Roma which is a very high-end shopping street here, that's Piazza San Carlo back there that we've walked down from and I actually went into the Bialetti shop because I really want a Bialetti but I'm not going to buy it here because I've only travelled with hand luggage but now we're just walking down to the Egyptian museum which is just behind here I just want to show you the view without getting run over but can you see through all the streets you can see like the mountains and the trees and stuff and it's so oh and it's so beautiful we just walked through the uh national museum and there's like a little street market on in the courtyard I've seen like something really cool that I think I might buy it's like kind of pricey but it is handmade which is what I really like about it um let me just show you so you get these like little things that you hang and I think I might buy this one well it's really hard to see I'll show you in more detail if I buy it but um I'm being blinded by the sun these are so cool it's basically like a little mobile that you hang I thought I'd make a really nice addition to one of my gallery walls I'm gonna browse and then come back I think work it's a genius yes a really good quality it's very nice so I came back for my little lady reading the one that looks like me and two other people were interested so I was like I'll just take it but these are so cool I love a little handmade piece of art but it's like a flying carpet oh it's cute and they ship abroad by the way so this is what it's called we've come to a little hole in the wall place I read somewhere that they do vegan gelato here but I'm not entirely sure but either way I don't really fancy any I'm still have a little bit of jazzes so stracciatella or pistachio thank you grazie okay so they don't do vegan gelato the guy looked at me like I was a crazy person but just got pistachio and he's got uh custard yeah oh my god I had a little taste test of each flavor and that pistachio tastes like nothing I've ever tasted before like it actually tastes of pistachio that's really really doesn't it I like it do you like it I don't like the custard so much do you it's nice but not as nice as pistachio I also think we're standing in a taxi rank but there's like nowhere to sit people are gonna sit on these like bollards here but they're not actually seats and yeah um oh that pistachio is insane I'm just not an ice cream fan but gelato sorry same difference god that gelato was so good like I literally had like five spoonfuls um but the coke was really good good morning it's a really cloudy day today but we had such a nice sleep yesterday we were awake for over 22 hours and we walked almost 18 000 steps so we were shattered we had a really late dinner and then just crashed because of course restaurants don't open until about 7 or 8 p.m here in Italy we're now walking to the metro station and we're gonna go head back into the central area again we're going to try and find some breakfast I hope it warms up a little bit because it is quite cloudy uh can we cross no it's red so we think that's the metro station where we're staying it's like so quiet and peaceful around here that's our hotel but it is kind of in the middle of nowhere there's literally two restaurants here maybe three and we were a good like 30 minute walk to the central area yesterday we didn't realize that we were stopping to take photos and stuff it took us almost an hour so we're gonna jump on the train today and then just see what we do journey was so quick I cannot believe we walked for almost an hour yesterday and the train took us about five minutes like what the hell only two stops as well just so quiet it is nothing like Rome or Venice Florence or anywhere else I've really been in Italy to be honest it's it's just so nice it makes such a change um I think it kind of reminds me of Italy like over 20 years ago but especially when I was in Naples um because it was this quiet then and not very touristy I think we're going to cross the road here right Jess if you can see um we're just surrounded by all the Alps in the distance and it's just so nice you just get little peaks of mountains I did want to go up there but tomorrow it's 90 percent rain which is really annoying and today a lot of things are closed but I did want to go to this um Basilica of Superga but oh yeah oh this is Porto Nuva station this is the main train station in the city actually stumbled upon this market and it's so cool it's all vintage booksellers some of the books are really vintage actually obviously they're all in Italian but there was one published in London in 1948 just around the corner I feel like this must be a Sunday morning thing it's so cool some of the books are literally one euro um up to five euro I just love how busy it is I just love how all these people are so excited by books I just love it so much look he's just made some really great like coffee table books and just tell people that I understand everything that it says well they're probably not they're probably actual books but imagine this like on my coffee table and I'd be like yeah I understand this like I just seem so intelligent not joking when I say it this place goes on forever all the way around here and this is just one side of the building books have some like vintage stuff here as well so we have zucchini and cheese and I hope you enjoy thank you so much thank you the river and the views here are spectacular I think there's Parco de Valentini uh I think somewhere down there I'm not entirely sure we're gonna cross that bridge and then we're gonna go up there I think and I think we're gonna come back this way so we've just crossed over and now I think we're at a petrol station is this a petrol station I um you want to go to a castle I want to go to Monte de Cappuccini just because I love how that's pronounced my hay fever is not loving this environment but it is so beautiful and I love this weather so much 49 minutes I've got about five minutes to go to get to the top of the mountain there's a lot of people getting taxis here and this is what past Nishi would have done so I'm very happy with myself where's Jas gone many good views on this side that's where we're headed though aren't we yeah oh this is Ristorante Monte de Cappuccini I just love saying that so much we're finally here I think I hope but um oh I cannot wait to just sit here on the floor if I have to this view was so worth it how stunning is this and it's a beautiful day for it as well my weather app says it's cloudy but it's just the right amount of sun and clouds we had a delicious lunch ordered way too much food I thought I was getting two small starters and I basically ordered two main courses but now we are at the Museo Lavazza a coffee museum like I'm not someone that loves spending a lot of time in museums I feel like it takes a lot of time out of my holiday in often things I'm not that interested in but this one has my name written all over it I'm not a big fan of Lavazza coffee in general but maybe in Italy it's nicer there we go I believe the entrance is through here you get a free audio guide to share turn the cup around it's so cool it's an interactive cup so you place it down on the exhibitions where you see a circle and a big screen will play play I love this so Luigi Lavazza had his wife and his daughter helping him and it says that the presence of women in the company plays an unusual role for the time-defying convention I love that forgetting I'm vlogging we've just had a whole evening so we went back to the hotel to get changed then we came out for aperitivo which honestly did not disappoint I mean yes sure I could only eat the cheese and the gherkins and the olives and there was like a little pastry thing that was cheese and tomato it was delicious um now we're having dinner and it is oh my god it is 20 I don't even we can't see 20 past nine but we're not hungry we'll be hungry later but this is a problem being in Italy people eat very late we walked past this restaurant and and he was like yeah we're like what time do you close and he was like one and I was like in the morning what a Sunday night anyway we're here I bought a cacio e pepe basically this restaurant that we're at I walked past it twice yesterday and I was like they do cacio e pepe and I haven't had pasta yet on this trip but I loved that in Rome I had it like every single day this is my second aperol spritz today and um I had two yesterday hopefully this is good because everyone just seems to get it spot on here in London I always have to send them back they're like sorry you haven't made it correctly and as somebody that's worked with aperol on numerous occasions and used to be a brand ambassador or whatever I am I know how to make the perfect aperol spritz and I'm sorry but 90% of places in London do not so this has been such a treat I spoke too soon all my aperols here have been amazing I've just tried this and that is a lemon slice it's not an orange and I can taste the lemon now that I've seen it it's a good aperol like they haven't used filler like tonic water or lemonade or whatever they do in the UK that is very very wrong because they skimp on the prosecco and on the aperol itself and actually they put too much soda water in it but it's a lemon sorry I'm in Italy anyway um my phone is trying to speak to me I'm very excited for dinner even though I'm not hungry in the slightest but cacio e pepe who doesn't want like I think this tagliatelle or spaghetti or whatever pasta rolled around in a big ball of cheese like a cheese wheel no this doesn't look like much okay because honestly it's just a beige meal but hopefully this will taste epic look at this doesn't burrata just make everything look so good wow I feel like we are in quite a touristy place because I don't think they normally put parmesan like this on a table it's very it's giving me like pizza hut from the 90s vibes or early 2000s you know when they had the little um chili flakes shaker and the little parmesan shaker on the tables and you used to help yourself that's what it's reminding me of but oh I'm so excited for this it's not gonna ooze out by the way oh yeah wow that pasta is so al dente it's incredible guys I don't know if my taste buds have changed or what but I can't eat this I first of all it's so rich and it's so heavy and I am actually really full that pasta is cooked to perfection like it's so al dente the cheese is so heavy and I wasn't even um I've also realized that this place is very touristy so I don't think it's authentic first with the lemon slice of my apple second with the second with the grated parmesan on the table but also I don't think it's meant to have this much cheese on it and because it's gone cold now it's all congealed I also realized what the cacio and cacio pepe stands for because pepe is obviously cacio is short for caciocavallo which is a cheese that I actually had at lunchtime and didn't love because it was so heavy the cheese that you couldn't cut through the knife tear it off with your teeth it was like baked it's too much I think I'm like 90% cheese 10% apple after this trip well maybe a bit of bread as well 70% cheese 10% bread 20% apple that's I'm so done good morning we've just got on a bus to come to the mole and we wanted to not go into the museum but take the panoramic lift up for the views and it's sold out until Wednesday today's Monday um apparently you have to buy tickets in advance and select a time slot and he said keep an eye on the um website because sometimes people cancel their tickets so we're not going to make it unfortunately I'm going to show you I mean you can't see it from here it's such a huge building but I'm really glad we went up to um Montego cappuccino yesterday because that's obviously the best view of the mole anyway I mean it's gonna be really hard to see I'm not standing in a good location for it but the best view would have been from there but it's a huge crane so we're just gonna wander around here yeah we're in a nice area yeah it's funny this is the first street we've been to that is so touristy like all the shops here sell like magnets and like postcards I don't think anyone's in my I haven't seen anyone selling postcards magnets anywhere else no but I also don't think anyone's ever sent a postcard since I probably last went on holiday with my parents in the 90s it's just so pretty here it's our last day we've got about five or six hours before we need to head back to the hotel get our stuff and go to the airport so we're just gonna wander what do you think I feel right not too bad into the church of San Lorenzo this is the holy water and I'm going to pan you around to show you look at the detail in the ceiling it's just incredible three minute walk away from the is Turin Cathedral or Duomo di Torino as the locals call it I've been wondering why there's so many people standing here outside but this doesn't open for another four minutes that's why the other one opened at 3 30 and now it is almost four o'clock and it looks really busy there is a church tower that I think I saw we could we buy two kits for something to climb but it doesn't like it's that high and it also doesn't look like the views here are that great that's the church tower I mean I assume that's the tower it's the tallest thing here but this is our last stop of the day and we need to head back to the hotel to grab our things and head home so I'll take you inside and then I'll end my vlog yeah that's that must be the tower the sofa's so deep I feel like I'm lying down and we've just got back to the hotel we're just waiting for our luggage and we're gonna get on the bus to walk down to the station which is about 15 minutes then get on the bus which is about 37 minutes to get to the airport and do all the rest of it anyway so I thought I'd end my video here because we've had such a great time in Turin. Turin is such a great city to come on a long weekend break it's currently bank holiday Monday in the UK and we got the perfect flight so we flew out at 5 55 am on Saturday morning our flight home is at 9 pm tonight so we get home at like 10 11 pm perfect um I highly recommend it it really reminds me of when I lived in Florence 21 years ago but at that time before it got really touristy before the internet before blogs before YouTube channels before people just went everywhere it's just such a great city but anyway I really hope you enjoyed watching this video thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one bye