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Restaurant Suggestions for Torino and Olympic ski resorts

If you have the fortune to be one of the few people that is viewing the Winter Olympics in Italy, here are some restaurant suggestions for your stay:

Bardonecchia, Ristorante Smith
The restaurant entrance goes through the not-so-charming bar, but you'll notice the dining room for its stylish decor, high ceilings and elegant table setting. Food and wine are excellent.

Claviere, 'L Gran Bouc
Restaurant-pizzeria with two main rooms, a rustic one and a second one with stylish antique decor. Serves both national as well as Piedmontese dishes. Very friendly staff.

Sestriere, La Gargote
This restaurant is located just a couple of minutes away from the slopes in Sestriere. The atmosphere is rustic. Rather expensive but definitely worth it.

Beer Inside or Out (Bavaria, Germany)

Everyone knows the benefits of drinking beer. Less well known is Bavaria’s beer bath, where the combination of fresh barley and malt plus essential oils has an enzymatic on the metabolism and a peeling effect on the skin. Perfect after a day’s skiing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen ….

(Double the benefits by quaffing a local brew at the same time!) And if you don’t do beer, there are organic whey baths, goat butter baths, salt water baths, milk baths, moor baths, hay baths, rose baths. Use your imagination....

Want That On Ice? (St. Moritz, Switzerland)

 At one end of the attractive lake below St. Moritz village is a bar which is reputed to have the world’s largest selection of fine whiskeys. Probably, best not sipped on ice. But that’s about the only thing in St. Moritz that’s not on ice. When it comes to sports, the intrepid local sportsmen have devised ways to experience usual warm weather sports on the frozen lake: golf, polo, horse jumping, horse racing gallop and trot, cricket, take your pick. Every has its weekend event. If those are not enough, you can wangle an invitation to test the renown Cresta toboggan run or the Olympic bobsled run. (Don’t be misled, “toboggan” is actually a thin head-first skeleton sled. The bob is less challenging, but just as exciting; experienced bobsledders are drivers of the “Taxi Bob.”