Marmalade

I was a busy girl today.  This morning I ironed out the final details for this weekend.  I wanted to go somewhere I haven't been, and a place that I won't be going to when my family arrives at the end of July.  I really wanted to go to Verona, but who would have thought that the place would be booked solid!  Every single hotel I looked at that was in my price range was booked.  I even checked the places that were outside of my budget, and they were booked too.  I figured if it was going to be difficult to find a place in Verona, then it was probably going to be packed with people touring.  After nixing Verona, I looked into Torino and Lecce.  Torino is in northern Italy whereas Lecce is in southern Italy.  I made my final decision based on the train times.  The trains going to Lecce didn't get in until close to midnight, and the train to Torino was a little more reasonable with the time getting me there at about 5pm.  So this weekend, I will be headed to Torino.  If anyone has any suggestions on what to see, then please post them below.  I don't really have much planned for when I am there.

After getting my train tickets and booking a hotel room, I spent the early afternoon helping Michela peel peaches.  We were making marmalade.  We peeled about 5 kilos of peaches for the marmalade.  I must say it is so confusing over here with the metric system.  They use kilos instead of pounds or ounces and celsius instead of fahrenheit.  Once the peeling was done we added the sugar and some water to the peaches.  The concoction had to be heated on the stove for a few hours.

Once it was finished, the marmalade was put into glass jars.  Now we just have to let it sit, and we wait for next summer to enjoy it!