Well, this isn‘t just some other yadda yadda about winter sports taking place in Sochi, an impressive caviar-city located at the Black Sea. It is about a three week-long road trip with ten men and one girl (myself) through all the best parts of ,middle-earth‘ (or, as some others would call it, Central and Eastern Europe).And all this in a brandnew wrumm-wrumm vehicle from Fiat’s newest series that’s named after an amazingly dyed animal—hence, the Fiat ,Panda‘. Since our car of choice was born in Italy, that’s where we’re going to start our journey. Thus, our first stop is none other than the great city of Turin. Che bello!I sure hope they’ll teach me all the basic Italian I need for this stop, such as: „Where do I pick up my Panda?“ just to get the trip going and drive right through the Po River. All the way to Geneva and Zurich, where I will shake hands with the local squatting scene, buy spray cans and give our Panda some bamboo to eat.But before I start listing every tour stop of our journey throughout Central and Eastern Europe to the Russian Federation, I better give you a straight overview. This road trip is all about going from to Turin to Sochi—in nothing more than 19 days and via such fabulous countries as Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and, finally, Russia. I don’t know about you, but to me, this sounds like the Academy Awards of road trips.Of course, I’m going to provide you with your daily news fix about such things as our scheduled Panda downhill race against pro-boarders of the Nitro snowboard team and the visit of Hungary’s candy wonderland, to meeting the only supermodel of Romania and plenty more of the stuff that hitchhikers would probably die for (if that wouldn’t mean even further minimizing the chance of ever getting to see any of this at all).All that news, I’m going to get to you through none other than my new boyfriend: a brandnew Nokia device, har har. And believe me, this is not just another Potemkin article — and to prove it, I’mgoing to stage a snowboarding scene at the famous Potemkin staircase. Google it, if you don‘t get my last sentence. Can‘t wait. So: Hello!