Oops just realized I posted the last two blogs backwards! Sorry about that! I shouldn't be allowed to use technology during jet lag. ;-)
November 12, 2014
We arrived to Milan around 9am - I didn’t sleep one bit on the plane unfortunately. We were able to check in early and I napped for a few hours while the girls walked around the area of our hotel in the pouring rain. We had a tour scheduled at 2:30pm. The one thing we really wanted to see what DaVinci’s The Last Supper. The tickets sell out weeks, even months in advance so booking a tour of Milan was our only way of making it happen. We visited the Opera House, the Duomo, a beautiful castle, the famous bull mosaic where you spin on its testicles 3 times and finally The Last Supper. It was 100% worth it. They have it completely temperature controlled, you have to go in to one room, let the door shut behind you before you advance to the next room. You are allowed only 15 minutes in the room with the painting. It was so surreal seeing it on the wall. Most art I’ve seen is mobile, just a painting. This was the first very famous fresco I’ve seen. Quite a moving experience, even with my lack of religious beliefs. Our guide had a pretty thick accent but spoke good english. She way overused the word elegance, but pronounced it “helegance”. We decided to make a drinking game out of it (even though we didn’t actually have drinks) and then were grateful we didn’t because we would have died from alcohol poisoning! It rained most of the day, so our umbrellas and boots got a lot of use!
After they dropped us off near our hotel and we walked around an window-shopped in our favorite stores! Of course we had to stop at every jewelry store and pick out our favorite bling. The Italians eat way late but we were starving by 7pm! We stopped at a Cafe to have drinks and dinner. And gelato. Delicious delicious gelato. We walked around some more until we found a cute wine bar right by the Duomo. Unfortunately the staff was quite rude and we left after 1 glass of wine. Back to our hotel to pass out from exhaustion!
We arrived to Milan around 9am - I didn’t sleep one bit on the plane unfortunately. We were able to check in early and I napped for a few hours while the girls walked around the area of our hotel in the pouring rain. We had a tour scheduled at 2:30pm. The one thing we really wanted to see what DaVinci’s The Last Supper. The tickets sell out weeks, even months in advance so booking a tour of Milan was our only way of making it happen. We visited the Opera House, the Duomo, a beautiful castle, the famous bull mosaic where you spin on its testicles 3 times and finally The Last Supper. It was 100% worth it. They have it completely temperature controlled, you have to go in to one room, let the door shut behind you before you advance to the next room. You are allowed only 15 minutes in the room with the painting. It was so surreal seeing it on the wall. Most art I’ve seen is mobile, just a painting. This was the first very famous fresco I’ve seen. Quite a moving experience, even with my lack of religious beliefs. Our guide had a pretty thick accent but spoke good english. She way overused the word elegance, but pronounced it “helegance”. We decided to make a drinking game out of it (even though we didn’t actually have drinks) and then were grateful we didn’t because we would have died from alcohol poisoning! It rained most of the day, so our umbrellas and boots got a lot of use!
After they dropped us off near our hotel and we walked around an window-shopped in our favorite stores! Of course we had to stop at every jewelry store and pick out our favorite bling. The Italians eat way late but we were starving by 7pm! We stopped at a Cafe to have drinks and dinner. And gelato. Delicious delicious gelato. We walked around some more until we found a cute wine bar right by the Duomo. Unfortunately the staff was quite rude and we left after 1 glass of wine. Back to our hotel to pass out from exhaustion!
Delicious delicious gelato!
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