Visit to Milano

Milan, the utopia for shopping-lovers! As you will expect, I was really looking forward to visit this city.

When we arrived the plan was to take the Linate airport bus to the airport where we knew the Crowne Plaza operated a free hotel shuttle to their hotel where we had booked a room for 3 nights. This worked well and we checked in at the hotel around 5pm. We put our bags in the room and went  searching for a supermarket and a restaurant for dinner. After plundering the supermarket we found a great little Italian restaurant, called ‘Il Cedro’ in San Donato Milanese, where we enjoyed a large fresh pizza. Back at the room we slept almost directly, exhausted from another busy day with another to follow tomorrow.

The first thing in the morning we did was finding a tourist shop, so we could ask some more information about the bus-system in Milan. We found out that we could get a 3 Euro day tripper card that we could use on the subway, buses, trams etc around the region. Being quite an expert by now at reading foreign automatic ticket dispensing machines I quickly found the appropriate ticket type and paid 3 euro each for our "Abbonamento Giornaliero Urbano".

We immediately used our tickets to go to Duomo, an enormous church. Our mouths fell open as we got out of the subway and our eyes fell on the wonderful Duomo.

Quite a breath-taking sight!  From here we went to Piazza Mercanti and then up Via Dante, window shopping at the expensive Italian clothes. Is it is only window shopping, we didn't spend there much time, we decided that our next stop would be Santa Maria della Grazie, the home of the original ‘Last Supper’ painting created by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1460’s. Unfortunately we didn’t get a chance to actually see it in real life as the tickets are sold out 2 weeks in advance! Too bad :(

For getting back to the hotel we took a city tour, by bus. This is a great way to see the city and it will save the feet!

Again it was a very exhausting day, so we went to bed early.

The next day we didn't do much of visiting, we went shopping, in the more payable part of the city off course.

See you within a week!

Kisses Marlies
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