On Saturday, March 29, we left Amsterdam in the late
afternoon and arrived in Milan in the evening.
When we arrived we realized we had to take a 45-minute bus ride into
Milan as the airport was that far away.
The bus took us to the central train station where we had to figure out
what stop to get off at and how to get to the apartment from there. Needless to say, we got lost once we got off
the subway getting to the apartment. We
ended up having to use Jess’s phone to get in touch with the owner of the
apartment and he met us and walked us the rest of the way. The apartment was very small, but cute and I
liked it. I would not live there with
anyone else but myself, but it was good for the 3 nights we were there. There was a local pizzeria near by that we
had dinner at around 10 or 11 pm and shared 2 bottles of wine. It was such a nice dinner, but I was
exhausted.
The next day we were planning on exploring the city, but it
was pouring rain outside and it was hard to get around. Two of us had umbrellas and we took the
subway most places, but it was still miserable.
We went to the Milan Cathedral (duomo) and took a look inside
there. Then after that we attempted to
go to a museum, but we got coffee instead at the museum café. We also walked through a mall of some sorts
right next to the Cathedral. This mall
was beautiful, but all the stores were expensive and there was no point of
shopping. We then took the subway back
to our part of town and ate at another local pizzeria for lunch. This pizza was much different than what we
had the first night; it was thick crust and did not have as much sauce on
it. It was very good pizza, but I much
prefer thin crust pizza. We also got a
dessert, which I thought was ice cream, but if was more of a cream puff with
something delicious on the outside. I
was in love. J After lunch we attempted to look around a
farmers market of sorts, but they were starting to tear down their booths and
it was miserable outside, so we went back to the apartment. That night we cooked spaghetti instead of
going out to eat and it was lovely.
After the day of rain was Easter Sunday and it was gorgeous
outside. We woke up early to go to
church for Easter and we decided to go to the 9:30 service at the Milan
Cathedral. The entire mass was in Italian,
but I could follow for the most part and it was amazing to hear a mass in a
different language. After mass we headed
back to our apartment to re-group and figure out what we wanted to see that
day. We had looked up a cemetery and
this tower where you could see all of Milan from the top of it. On the way to the tower we found an entire
street full of shops (all closed of course for Easter), but the street was
great to walk down. I was having fun
just walking aimlessly. We ended up
finding a castle and a park on our way to the tower and it was starting to get
very warm outside; I was ecstatic. I saw
other people laying on the grass and thought it would be a great idea to do the
same. So we laid down for about an hour
soaking up the sun and took a good nap.
I would have to say that this Easter was my favorite Easter of all. My family was not with me, sadly, but it was
still a good day! We found a pizzeria on
our way back to the apartment called The Rocking Horse. It was a very delicious meal; we got bruschetta
to start, and then each got a pizza and split a bottle of wine. It was a great way to end our last night
Milan on Easter. J
The next day we were ending our 10-day long trip around
Europe and going back to Innsbruck. It
was sad that it ended so soon, but we were all very excited to get back to new
home!
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