10th Oct - 12th Oct
2 nights
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Ummm, not as interesting as the rest of the places we have been to...

Asleep on the train

This is a place if you have money and you really want to spend it on really expensive and boring designerwear clothes and you want to be seen with the rich and famous (well, we didnt really see any rich OR famous people) not really for travellers who live on bread and cheese everyday, I wouldnt really have anything nice to say about Milan if I didnt buy my sexy tiger bag from there! (ok, its not THAT bad but you know...) so yeah...most of my day was spent wandering around the grounds of the castle and its gardens and looking through the amazing interior of the gothic/baroque style Duomo (which is huge!)

You definatley need to have money to feel mildly at home in these shops! even the maccas here is gold class!

When we arrived in Milan, I wasnt feeling to well anyway and slept straight away once I got there...my back was hurting and I needed a break..so I decided id sacrifice a night time tour of Milan and take a snooze which was a very good idea! The boys werent feeling to well either and after Milan we started to buy garlic daily and guzzling orange juice by the litre! man, we must have STUNK! the boys were CHEWING the garlic cloves, i was swollowing them cos I was too scared to smell! haha but man, now that alone was an experience to go through! haha

The amazingly massive duomo

The inside of the amazing Cathedral

The shell of the old castle is here still and is used as a museum

Behind the castle was a huge green park where the locals hang out at, gorgeous wildlife and green trees, relaxed here for a while

oh oh!! i found a basketball court in the gardens behind the castle! I got so excited because 2 boys started shooting around (they were pretty crap actually...i think these Milan people should stick to getting dressed) and I watched them for about 30mins! pure bliss, I miss basketball so much, I think i need to buy one and start bouncing it around the streets with me, hehe..ok, im not gonna do something that drastic...but my point is i miss it ok...

sob!

We went (window) shopping in the main fashion arcade which had a beautiful old dome overhead, the maccas inside was so upperclass! nice seats, better counters, nice pot plants, I wouldnt have been surprised if they had dressed Ronald up with some Gucci or Armani (i checked, they hadnt)

There are the most amazing statues all over Europe, and most are included with pigeons, no extra charge, so most have a brownish whitish tinge to them

After getting up from fainting when seeing the €13,500 price tag of a Prada bag,
we stumbled to the supermarket and bought some dinner and went back to the hotel room and ate and talked, the boys crack me up most of the time, very amusing characters I tell you..hehe my "quotes" page in my journal is so funny i cant stop laughing when reading back on some of them! hahaha, ahh, what an experience I tell ya....

getting settled in for the long ride

umm, charming, the chocolate bars that Sam and Dan got so addicted to they carried the boxes all around europe with them! Kinder Bars