We packed up and wandered down to the train station. I have to stay, the place we stayed in Monterosso was one of the nicest rentals I have ever had. So if you are looking for a place for two or three people in Monterosso check out Appartamento Piccolo PrÃncipe.
The train tried to Milan was rather brutal. The train was packed, the train was running quite late, and I was across from someone who was taking more than his fair share of the foot space. My patience was running low. Finally, however, we arrived in Milan.
Milan is a marked contrast to the other places we visited in Italy. It is very modern and busy and fast. The area by the central train station is not a pretty place and we were hot and tired. We hopped on a Metro and made our way to the hotel which is cute and quirky. We then found food at a local chain that was rather good and quite frankly I would have eaten my shoes at that point and enjoyed them greatly. We then ventured down to the Duomo.
You know how Target Field can seat about 40,000 people when they free up the standing room only seats? Yeah, so can the Duomo in Milan. They started building the thing in the 1300s and did not finish till the 1800s. In between it was as if the Renissance vomited all if the flair they could on the building. There is not a quarter inch of the thing that does not have a carved something or another on it. And we got to walk around on the roof.
It was very high up. We cheated and took the life, but there were still a fair amount of stairs.
Inside is quite remarkable. The space is huge and there is a tremendous amount of stained glass. Of course pictures don't capture it so well.
Afterwords we stopped and got lemon ices and considered our food options. We were almost paralyzed with indecision, but finally decided to go down by the canal. We did not know where down by the canal or for what purpose, but we figured that someone would be willing to feed us something.
We walked on one side of the canal and were started to get pretty depressed about the food options. Then we crossed to the other side and found many promising looking options. We decided to go to a place the translated to the White Rabbit. The services was enthusiastic and despite the considerable language barrier, we ended up ordering great food.
We dined long and late and even ordered dessert.
Tomorrow we leave early for Switzerland. Goodbye Italy!
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