Squeezyhoney

Italy Day #2

rise and shine at 6am! got up and freshened up, then took the airport shuttle to the airport where i met up with Mommy and Wey who just flew in from Bangkok. i miss my mommy...

oh she brought me some siew pau. yum yum. ate them cold and hard though. but still good.

phew were there many aunties in the tour group! and there was this one whom i especially despise. not gonna fill you in with the unpleasant details^^ my account of the trip will only be a sweet and memorable one!

from the airport, we boarded a tour bus. a HUGE one which could sit 54 passengers. there were 37 of us. and we were introduced to the "mafia" driver. didn't get why my tour manager kept calling him that at first. but it didn't take long for me to find out. our driver, Stephano (must say it with Italian accent), is really BIG. well, i guess he must be of reasonable size to handle a bus that big. that's not all. he curses and swears at stupid drivers in his way every chance he gets. haha. funny.

off to milan city where we had lunch at a small Italian restaurant. had a 3 course meal. most of our Italian meals consists of a starter ( almost always pasta. different kinds though), a main course and a dessert.

starter. lasagna. doesn't look like the ones we normally eat. it looks like a wanton. filled with cheese and vegetables with cream sauce. it tastes better than it looks.

main course: seabass in vegetable sauce. small portion. not very nice.

dessert. authentic tiramisu. tiramisu actually means "pick me up". it was made by the lovers of Roman soldiers when they went for war. and the sweetness of tiramisu is intended to tell the soldiers not to forget their loved ones back home. to come back for them.

next stop: milan city centre! the city was so jammed that the bus could not go anywhere near the centre. our only option was to go in on foot! walk walk walk. that was what we basically did the entire trip.

so walk and walk, and then we saw her. her beauty. her magnificence. she was just breathtaking!

who?

DUOMO DI MILANO

Built from the late 14th well into the 19th century (and in a sense, never completed as work continues), the Duomo di Milano is one of the world's largest churches, long second in size within Italy only to Saint Peter's Basillica in Rome, and being the second largest Gothic cathedral in the world, after the Cathedral of Seville in Spain.
(extracted from Wikipedia)

her side view. the majestic duomo.

the ultimate facade

wey and i on the roof of the cathedral

more of her magnificence

wey, mommy and i in front of duomo

after the duomo, it was shopping time!

PLAZZA VIKTOR EMMANUEL II

place to get all the branded and expensive stuff.

this was where i got my bag and shades ^^

it was already dinner time when everyone came back with their harvests. most of them with Louis Vuitton bags. blek! we had dinner at this tiny Chinese restaurant in Milan. forgot what it's called. the food was horrible. i just don't understand why people would join a European tour and expect to eat chinese food! shouldn't they be trying all the local food instead? Italian food especially. *sigh. double sigh*

here's glimpse of what was served.