What surprise I had this morning!
I was working on my new painting like I use to do every morning, when at a certain hour (around at the 11 AM) I started to listen high volume music on the street in front of my main door. While I was thinking "What's happening now?!?", my hubby 
What?!?
You have to know during these days we are both very very busy and so we didn't read about this event in my city, but it was an exciting surprise for us, believe me!
The torch relay for the 2026 Winter Olympicsstarted on November 26th 2025 in Olympia (Greece) and it will end in Milan (Italy, my country) the February 6th 2026 for the opening of the Olympic games.
Reading some more informations about it, from the start to the end and after the ceremony in Athens on the December 4th, the flame will make "60 stops over 63 days across 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi) and involving 10,001 torchbearers." (source)
When I went out of my house, I watched there are the woman runner (a torchbearer) who was waiting to meet the previous torchbearer to "exchange" the flame and that moment was just in front of my house, so excited and touching too, believe me.
The street was closed to the cars for some minutes before and after the torchbearers and there was a sort of parade of different sponsors like Coca Cola and others that was playing music and giving the red beanies of the winter olympic games to the people around (I took one of them, sure!).
In the following pic you can see the torchbearer who was waiting the previous one;
The woman was really really excited to be a torchbearer and, in the following pic you can see the moments while the previous torchbearer (a young boy) was arriving to transferre the flame:
And finally, the moment to transferre the flame from a torchbearer to the next one. ❤️
See ya soon and stay safe,
Silvia
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