Milan, Italy Travel Blogs

The Italian Job
Sep 10, 2007 (35 photos)

... with this country!  We had no exact plan and so we let high spirits take over and soon found ourselves lost in Milan.  Not a bad town to wander in really.  Eye candy of every type awaits you at every turn. Beautiful buildings, beautifully ...

Milan for a night...
Jun 13, 2008 (5 photos)

... ; A quick drive down to the Milan airport and we pick up Aaron Breeden before heading downtown to watch the Italy - France Euro 2008 game in the Duomo square in Milan.  Of all the games I've seen so far in this tournament, this is the most insane as ...

short look around before heading to higher ground
Sep 20, 2005

Half way through the day since leaving Venice behind we stopped at Milan, as its the only entry to Switzerland from Italy. Milan looked ok from a quick glance. A little bit industrial, but this may have just been the city centre, however we didnt ...

Map Pin Update
Jul 16, 2007

Milan pin update

Legs
Jul 19, 2006 (3 photos)

... it probably wasn't meant to be and I should roll with it. So I took the next sleeper train heading north, which brought me to Milan. I decided to spend a day wandering Milan and found out that Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' is here, so I set off to find it. ...

DO YOU WANT SOME OIL WITH THAT VINEGAR?
Jun 21, 2003

... So many months later, the travelling all comes to an end - Andie and I are on the first plane out of sweltering Milan tomorrow. Good riddance you terrible country. Of course I'm lying. We've had an 'amazing' time over the past couple weeks, ...

Milan in a day
Nov 28, 2004 (2 photos)

... it was fully booked out and overall the city was quite dirty. Would I go back, don't know really, but there are far better places in Italy to go to. So please, do not ask me for advice about Milan, because personally, I thought it was a bit of a shithole

La Dolce Vita
Apr 25, 2005 (3 photos)

At last we have truly made it to the heart of civilization, Italy! Land of scrumptious food and gorgeous art history. Tina and I began our time here by flying into Milan where my good friend Massimo met us and introduced us to the wonders of apperitivo; ...

Don't care what teachers say: Gonna be supermodel.
Oct 21, 2005 (33 photos)

... bicycles in Amsterdam, birds must be the most likely cause of death in Milan. Not because of bird flu though. And not everywhere in Milan. In fact, just at the Duomo. And not all birds. Just pigeons. But there are a lot of them, and they thirst for ...

Milan
May 16, 2005 (2 photos)

... up at the taxi queue at the train station. Guess Sunday is a tougher day to catch a taxi there. Milan is definitely the fashion capital of Italy. Our hotel was located close to the fashion district and we did a couple of hours of window shopping ...

Road to Buenos Aires!
Jun 4, 2007 (3 photos)

Matteo and Viola take the flight to South America!!!

Milano
Jul 5, 2007

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Milan airport is hot and rubbish!
Jul 27, 2006

... in Milan I was desperate to get off the plane...the flight had been very hot and cramped...I was all dehydrated and hadn't slept, forgetting that Milan airport is rubbish I tried to find some water...of which there was none...then got on another plane.

Life in Milano
Sep 2, 2009 (39 photos)

... under my belt and managed to not break the bank. I went to a pub to watch the big futbol game, inner vs. outer Milan. It was a little disappointing because the team that everyone wanted to win got there butts handed to them. (The foreign students didn't ...

Milan
Oct 20, 2005

... banana gelato actually tasted like you were eating a banana. On the morning before our fair we attempted to go shopping. This is Milan afterall. I was severely disappointed. All the shops we saw were the same ones we had seen in Paris, and Zurich. A few ...

Bellagio - the most beautiful place in europe.
Jul 1, 2008 (11 photos)

... to the most picturesque hillside village of Bellagio. (approximately one and a half hour's drive from the motorway). Interesting driving out of Milan on the 'wrong side' of the road... I think that I'm going to have a headache when crossing the roads over ...

I'm Terrible At Coming Up With Titles
Apr 10, 2006

I got my Italian Test back today, I got an 85, pretty good, I was happy, maybe I'll be able to keep up conversation in Trentino this weekend. Design is going well, we didn't do too much because last week was the Salone, but my group is having trouble ...

A day of travel.
Jul 21, 2009

... makes the streets shine in every color. For lunch, I had to do it, what else than spaghetti and meatballs. Excellent. From Milan to Venice the countryside was covered in huge wine and olive farms. Up every hillside and covering every valley. When I arrived ...

Photos!!!
Sep 6, 2007

Please see Britt's Blog (bploh) to see some pictures... my computer was letting me upload them!!

Mancano due settimane
Feb 1, 2008 (1 photos)

Per Adesso ancora a casa. I preparativi fervono, ma sembra ancora tutto cosi' lontano. Per ora ho solo lo zaino e i biglietti d'aereo. Ma va bene cosi': nessuna aspettativa, nessuna attesa, solo l'inseguimento del futuro. A presto Aldo

Milan
Feb 24, 2004 (2 photos)

... few spires. Still we climbed the cathedral and took in the detailed roof that, with some 135 spires, was still very impressive. Nonetheless, I quickly decided that Milan had blown its second chance and so we headed out and west towards France (again)...

A Milano
Oct 10, 2009 (28 photos)

... I say turns out, I mean I finally actually looked at the cover of the book). It's a vegetarian restaurant. I know! A vegetarian restaurant in Italy, how could I not go? So I went. It was packed but I got what I believe is the best seat in the house. I was ...

pin for Milano
Nov 8, 2007

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forza inter
Jan 22, 2008 (44 photos)

... this football trip of the devil of death. It had everything that makes football such an amazing, exhilarating, sometimes violent in Italy, spectacle. And incredible venue - the San Siro is an 80,000 seat monster and argueably the home of football; a loud, ...

Milan
Dec 19, 2005 (2 photos)

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May 5, 2008

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Welcome to Europe!
Jul 11, 2008 (2 photos)

We landed in Milan, picked up our rental car and booted it practically all night into French territory, stopping at Gap in the Alps for a few hours' sleep. Tomorrow is Le Chalet! I can feel the Blanquette de Limoux already tickling my taste buds ;)

I Love Fridays and Good Food!!
Feb 4, 2006

... to Certosa in Pavia. It is a monastery that was built in 1396. Era bellisima (It was beautiful). Pavia is outside of Milan, and as I understood from Guilia, it is like a district in the region of Lombardy. After Certosa, we walked around Pavia for an ...

Finally In Milan!
Jan 13, 2006 (4 photos)

... amazing. I took pictures through the window. I figured I may never see them from that perspective again. We finally landed in Milan, around 10:35am, right on time. We waited around for a little bit for our luggage to appear, there were very few at first, ...

Orientation
Jan 14, 2006 (3 photos)

... done. We went back to the apartment, and my parents called letting me know that my grandpa's cousin, Giulio who lives in Milan, and his daughter Florinda, and his niece's husband Alfredo were at the Marriott and wanted to meet me. My roommate Anna came ...