Santa Barbara Milan
Piazzale Supercortemaggiore 4 Milan, Lombardy, 20097, Italy
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Day 12
... so we eventually turned it off!
Westpac is causing us some grief with our credit cards and they gave us a 24hr number to call reversing the charges through the international operator - Italy doesn't have any operators! So, we went to the Tabaccaio buy a phone card - which one?- who knows! It didn't work anyway - each time we tried, the message came back that no such number existed. We have sent emails to everyone ...
Milan, My First Stop in Italy
... pastries and bustling espresso counters. Luckily, I walked into one where a waiter spoke English. The waiter was the head waiter and he was wearing a very fancy suit for just serving coffee and cookies, but hey it’s Milan! He brought hot chocolate syrup with my cappuccino. It tasted amazing!
I wandered through the Galleria ...
Buon Giorno, Italia!
... pigeons one of those details that creates the charm and romanticism of Italy? Or, after fighting these disease-carrying-flying-rats off of my apartment balcony in Tempe, Arizona for the past year, are they nuisances to the Italian locals as much as they are to the Arizona locals? The square in front of the Duomo was large, which allowed for a view of the entire cathedral. The beautiful white (sort of white…) cathedral is ...
Milanday was a good day
... and the outside is very intricately built. Another site was Castello which was worth seeing, but there wasn't much there but castle walls. We window shopped some of the high-end designer stores. There is a very nice mall-like building that had some stores. We went inside two stores. The Mercedes Benz store which had a beautiful specimen of a car, and the Ferrari store which had 4 floors of overpriced red objects and clothes. For lunch we went to a place that ...
Last Day, Last Super
... will come through here. We had coffee and biscotti on the piazza in front of the Cathedral. we window shopped our way to the tour bus stop. After lunch we stopped at the sports store next to the bus stop to pick up World Cup Shirts.
Our bus tour hit ...



