My son was here visiting for the holiday and we decided to take a bit of a road trip to try to find his distant relatives here in Italy. Our extended plan was to see a bit of the Italian Alps and Lake Como and it was sort of on the way, sort of. His grandmother’s family is from a small town in the district of Turino (TO) called Strambinello, nestled into a mountainside just in the foothills up from Ivrea.