Sunday October 16
"Milan"
Waking up was a struggle but I slowly but surely got my stuff together and caught a 3:30AM bus to the airport. After waiting in the airport for a few hours, boarded my flight to Milan. I slept most of the way, until this baby woke up the whole plane and would not stop crying (there should be an age limit for kids on flights, just saying.) Landed in Milan and waited for Andrea and Arielle for about 3 hours, they were coming from Prauge. We took the bus from the airport to the train station, where we then got a taxi to our hotel.
I was beyond tired so I took a nap when we got to our hotel. The rooms in European hotels are so different than in the states. A double room is two twin beds. However the beds in Milan were the most comfortable out of all three cities. They were more comfortable than my bed in my dorm at Regents in London. That night we went down town to get dinner; all of the restaurants along this one strip had a really cool concept. You buy one drink whether its alcohol or soda and it's 8 Euro...then there is this huge buffet set up and you can get all the food you want. But the way it was set up was like you were at a cookout. There were paper plates, plastic utensils etc. Then at 10:00pm they start charging you for meals and the buffet is taken away. It was cool, and the food was really good.
Monday October 17
"Hop on Hop off Milano"
We didn't really know what was in Milan, us being typical girls just knew that it was the Fashion Capital of the world. We decided to do a Hop on Hop Off tour; you get on the bus and listen to headphones about the history and sites about the city. You can then get on and off at any stops you want to. We got off at the Duomo de Milan; it was this absolutely gorgeous cathedral. It was so big, and the architecture was amazing. Inside was just as pretty. Outside of the Duomo was this big open area with a bunch of people and pigeons. Literally there were so many pigeons, these men were walking around with bird seed in their hands asking if we wanted to feed them! Ummm no? It was so gross...little kids would take the bird seed and have literally 2 pigeons on each arm, who would let their kid do that? Then there were these other guys giving away little string bracelets. They look like friendship bracelets, and they are supposed to bring you luck. The men that were giving them out were from Africa and asked where we were from and when we said the US they would High Five us and say OBAMA! It was so funny. Then they would ask you for a donation. The bracelets are cute though, I got two but didn't donate....sorry.
After doing the bus tour all day we went back to our hotel and relaxed a bit before grabbing a late dinner. We went to this small place by our hotel, literally had the best pizza EVER. The best sauce and cheese omg I am hungry just thinking about it as I write this. Overall Milan was good, there was graffiti all over the city though, more than the typical amount you would expect to see. It was really dirty and I don't know if I would plan a trip back there. I mean it was nice but Florence and Rome were so much better.
I am breaking this into 3 parts...1 for each city (:
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