Milano, my favourite city.
26th March 2023
Well aware that our holiday was in its final stages, the next destination was to one of my favourite places anywhere, Milano. But it was going to be a long drive from Crecchio, about five and three quarter hours excluding pit stops. My first drive along the Adriatic coast and it was wonderful.
The thing that makes staying in Milano pleasurable is it is fairly flat making walking around easy. And that was welcome because it was still very hot. Temperatures were still over 40ºC in the afternoons. We have stayed in Milano several times, always in the same hotel, the Ibis Milano Centro. It's a thirty minute walk to the centre of the city.
For our first evening, Lynn had booked us in to a really nice restaurant called Osteria Del Treno that we had seen on Stanley Tucci's tv programme when he was covering Milano. It was worth it and we can highly recommend it!
Piazza della Scala
The next day we started our walk around in Piazza della Scala which brought back some lovely memories of times we have spent at La Scala for Operas. Then, of course, we visited the galleria making our way through to the Duomo. It's always an inspiring sight! We were intent on doing a bit of shopping and headed to La Rinascente, a large department store on numerous floors and also very busy. Then a wander round to the Ferrari store.
Lynn in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Il Duomo
From there we headed towards Brera which is one of our favourite districts in Milano. We stopped there for a bite to eat in Bar Brera on Via Brera. We had been there before several years ago. The only sour episode of the holiday happened here when Lynn was asked for change and the man tried to get inside her purse. I pulled his hand away and he beat a hasty retreat. It's the only time anything like that has happened to us in Italy.
Run!!!
After that we headed back to our hotel. It had become too hot to carry on walking round and our energy levels had dropped quite considerably. We had a rest in the afternoon looking forward to our evening meal. The next day was going to be something special, particularly for me but that is the going to be the subject of my next blog.
There are more photos from our stay in Milano here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAwQ6q
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you enjoyed it and my photos. Here's to the next one!
The thing that makes staying in Milano pleasurable is it is fairly flat making walking around easy. And that was welcome because it was still very hot. Temperatures were still over 40ºC in the afternoons. We have stayed in Milano several times, always in the same hotel, the Ibis Milano Centro. It's a thirty minute walk to the centre of the city.
For our first evening, Lynn had booked us in to a really nice restaurant called Osteria Del Treno that we had seen on Stanley Tucci's tv programme when he was covering Milano. It was worth it and we can highly recommend it!
Piazza della Scala
The next day we started our walk around in Piazza della Scala which brought back some lovely memories of times we have spent at La Scala for Operas. Then, of course, we visited the galleria making our way through to the Duomo. It's always an inspiring sight! We were intent on doing a bit of shopping and headed to La Rinascente, a large department store on numerous floors and also very busy. Then a wander round to the Ferrari store.
Lynn in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Il Duomo
From there we headed towards Brera which is one of our favourite districts in Milano. We stopped there for a bite to eat in Bar Brera on Via Brera. We had been there before several years ago. The only sour episode of the holiday happened here when Lynn was asked for change and the man tried to get inside her purse. I pulled his hand away and he beat a hasty retreat. It's the only time anything like that has happened to us in Italy.
Run!!!
After that we headed back to our hotel. It had become too hot to carry on walking round and our energy levels had dropped quite considerably. We had a rest in the afternoon looking forward to our evening meal. The next day was going to be something special, particularly for me but that is the going to be the subject of my next blog.
There are more photos from our stay in Milano here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAwQ6q
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you enjoyed it and my photos. Here's to the next one!
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By Emma Tomlinson: Great blog David. We are off to Italy to celebrate my 50th this August. My first time in Italy (Rog has been several times with RR). We’re off to Puglia and have a villa to accommodate us and extended family. Can’t wait!