Place: Milan
Date: Jan 07
Seems like every month going for holiday, indeed mostly are business trip. But anyway, thank God i have plenty of time to tour around. Thanks to the DK eyewitness travel guide, manage to find out all the important details, places to go, where to eat, transportation and bra...bra.
Took the long hour "no entertainment screen" lufthansa flight to frankfurt, waited for 2 and half hour for transit, then get on another flight to milan. Though tired, but was excited to visit this "branded" city which produce Prada, LV, Guici and etc. During the flight to milan, witnessed a range of alps which every passanger would stick to the window to admire the beauty of the snow mountains.
Milan was nice and cold, first place we go after loading our things to the hotel is Duomo and Victoria Gallerie. The magnificient church will at least take you half an hour to shoot picture on its front door.
Be very careful of your wallet, and don't bother those people come over and give you free bird food for the pigeon. They will ask money from you after that. There was a guy bump into me when i shooting the picture but fortunately i did't lose any thing. (though i not so certain that he is homosexual or not :P).
We went up to rooftop for 4 euro, climb like hell, should have taken the elevator for 7 euro. The scenery up there was really nice, besides seeing all the little statue, also provided a very good bird eye view for the whole city. After that we went inside the church, it's free, but i feel creepy inside. You will see a lot of nice staint glass and statue of saints as usual.
For Gallerie, every thing is expensive beside Macdonald, a little small wallet in LV cost you more than 200 euro, don't even think about it.
Afterall, it was still a very pleasant experience taking picture with all the fat fat pigeon but be alert for the bird poo....:P
heading to the one of the nicest city on earth - the Venice
stazione Milan Centrale at 530am ...
Reaching Venice at 9am
St Marco, hallmark for Venice
Pigeon just like me ...or rather they see me = food too
The Canal
Italian are just very particular about the drinking water
And they are particular about wine as well...
On the last day of our trip, we had been to one of the most beautiful lake in Italy -Lake Como. It was bigger than what I was imagining. The whole boat journey took up about 1 hour to finish from dock to dock and back to the original point, and it was only finish a small portion of the whole lake. The lake is clear and clean, with houses built on the mountain surrounding the lake, what a nice scenery and you would never forget the experience!!!
the shape of the lake
it's amaze how is the life here, with clean water, mountain and blue sky, everyday you are living in the resort-like home. I wonder if people here know the term called "Vacation"?
The wind blowing towards our face is excurciating freezing
if you ask me where is heaven on earth ...i will say here there is one of them
