Seasons and the weather here changes soooooooo slowly and with so few extremes it's boring!  The past week was gray and damp and coolish every day.  This next week is going to be gray and damp and a teeny bit cooler.  It's not the change in temperature that bothers me, it's the gray damp. My reaction to this weather is to hibernate.  All week long I've worked, then returned home and burrowed down to read in bed.  I hate the gray!  Today, Saturday, was the best you can get out of this lousy in- between weather.  I slept late and got up to the smell of pancakes.  Grace had made us all a lovely breakfast!  After a lazy midday reading and puttering, GP and I went into the city to take a long walk.  The center was packed with shoppers and tourists.  We walked and window shopped for 3 hours without ever leaving the cover of the "portici", the covered walkways that Torino is famous for.  There are hundreds of specialty food shops, gelato places, bars and restaurants in the city.  Just peeking in the shop windows made us salivate.  By the time we got home we'd worked up a huge appetite.  GP popped open a lovely bottle of wine and we ate cheese and bread, salad and vegetable, orzo soup.  Not a bad way to spend a gray day.  Tonight we'll find a film on T.V.  Life here isn't so different from home sometimes.  xxoo me