Hotel The Chedi Milan

... no idea we were in Switzerland as the french developed a more german sound to it. I stopped in the train station to use the bathroom and grab food before my next train.  The bathroom cost 2 swiss francs and I only had euros.  I looked through my coin purse trying to figure out what to give the man.  He plucked a two euro coin from my purse and said this will do. I said okay and headed into the stall.  Then I realized what the hell there is no way I'm paying ...

... gigantesques.

nous avons dinner dans un resto sur la rue tres touristique qui relis le duomo au chateau... un petit diner leger avec lequel emilie a pris une coupe de vin blanc qui coutait le prix total de nos 3 dernieres bouteilles de vin!!


je vais tenter d'ajouter des photos a mon blog le plus tot possible.

Lake Como photos here:
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Friday caught the train out to Como for a day trip.
Wandering around Como is really nice and can imagine it would be awesome in Summer, as well as being incredibly busy and crowded.
Caught the funiculare up to Brunate and walked up the ...

... a cool little wine bar/tobacco shop/lottery agent to have an aperitif and got to hear the waitress singing along to the radio in broken English with lots of made up words.
Had an AMAZING seafood paella at Osteria del Lazzaretto as well as the biggest piece of bruschetta I've had in my life! They also had half a litre of house wine for 4 Euro! Score!

... second was Apollo, choreographed by Balanchine to music by Igor Stravinski. Delightfully intricate, with one man hooking onto three women and spinning them, all interconnected, into a myriad shapes and figures - like a game of twister, but much more fluid. Finally came Voluntaries, performed to the Organ Symphony by Francis Poulenc, one of my all-time favorites. It was performed live, and the organist was fabulous. The combination of this powerful ...

... weird, they are all like unisex, haha. It's so strange. Anyways so the Duomo was cool and so is the ...

After Istanbul and Rome... even Venice looked dull .. so what do you say about Milan!

Though we did go to see the famous Leonardo Da Vince's Last Supper. For the nerds likes me, let me tell you that the painting is not on a canvas but on the wall of the church (don't remember the name of the church) ... the experience was Wow... it almost felt that you were having dinner with Jesus and his group .. its costs about 25Euro per person ...

... tram we asked our friend, Gretta, who had flown in from Berlin to join us in Milan for the game - "So, what did you think of your first Italian football experience?". "Oh, yeah, not bad I guess..." Not bad! Not Bad! Chicks - will they never understand? Next stop on the football roadshow - Roma...but first, we're going back to Milan for a Coppa Italia quarterfinal first leg between Inter and arch rivals Juventus. I hate Juventus...

I had managed (forced myself to) stay awake all night before my first flight to from LAX to JFK. My goal is to acclimate to Bali time during my series of five flights across the globe. Come on- it's way too boring to just take one flight and arrive in paradise. Besides, flying the wrong way across the globe to reach Bali saved me over a thousand dollars. To me, there's no choice in the matter. I have finally begun to reach the mindset one needs ...

... the man comes over to try all of our light switches. When he can't get it to work, he tells me to fetch the conductor. No sooner had I gotten the conductor to understand the lights weren't working and dragged him down to our cabin, than the man next door had somehow gotten our lights on. The conductor pointed disgustedly at the switches on the wall and stalked off. The man next door shrugged apologetically, as he had no idea why it had taken six or seven tries either ...