The day turned out to be really fun though! After an hour bus ride to Alba on Saturday, we started the day touring a castle and taking pictures of the surrounding vineyards. It was a nice change to be out of the city and see more of the Italian countryside!
Maddie, Maddie, Kaitlyn & Kathleen!
After checking out the castle, we went into the city of Alba for the truffle fair. It's held for a few weeks once a year, and this was the first weekend, so it was packed. There was also the weekend open market happening so the city was buzzing with activity. Once inside the truffle fair, we were surrounded by booths selling their prized truffles, (which can only be found by trained dogs and can sell for hundreds of euros for only one truffle! Some big truffles can be thousands!!) We walked around for awhile, sampling really good cheeses and truffle oils with bread.. you can't actually taste the truffles since they're so expensive.
After walking around for a bit, we left the festival and explored Alba city. It was a really quaint, small Italian town and really Italian. I wish I could be around that beautiful small-town scenery more!
Don't those just look SO GOOD? ;)
