short trip to mxp and bcn

Part 1

Milan...ahhh Milan, high end shopping, high end food, high end hotels alll cramped within this city. A city that have been on the top of my must visit list. Finally I went during cny this year and it is truly the money sucking capital of the world.

16/02/10

Boarded SQ378 to Milan at 11.45p.m. Only 5 star airline in south east asia that serves Milan I tink. So highly recommend it if u guys plan to go to Milan.

17/02/10

Milan greeted us with a gloomy weather. That sucked destroyed all my plans. Oh btw from airport to city is around 100 Euro although the airport notice board said 80 Euro. So to convert it cost almost RM 500 from for a 40 mins trip from airport to the hotel. That gave us the first clue to how ex is Milan's cost of living.

Since standard checking time is 2p.m and we arrived at 8a.m we have no choice but to wait at the hotel's cafe and the breakfast cost 35 euro each...thats almost 800 bowls of kolo mee x 4. But yea no choice la all the tourist spot still close and felt safer to eat at hotel.

10a.m we were given a room in advance so we dropped our luggage, had a shower and then head out.

And thats the room i share with my bro too bad that they dont have twin bed but I highly recommend it since it is located just next to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. Oh its the Park Hyatt Milan btw, excellent location, excellent service and excellent room as u can see from the pics.

Anw went to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele first since its right next to our hotel. If im right, it should b one of the oldest shopping arcade in the world. It is really beautiful.. and got shops such as Prada and Lv although very small. There are tons of good restaurant for breakfast dinner and lunch lo and one of the most famous within that building should be the Savini restaurant la. To bad I wasnt there during Milan Fashion Week if not I might bump into Miranda Kerr or some other Victoria Secret models since they walked the Prada Show.

The dome looks really good at night. The blue light match well with the marbles kinda like looking at the sky full with stars. That nite we had dinner at our hotel's restaurant. It was really good actually. I had one of the best carbonara in my life, not too cheesy but the parsley's flavour didnt take over the whole dish as well. Anw it was sort of fine dining la we had diff wines and champagne to accompany each course. So overall a great dining experience to start of the trip.

18/02/2010

Went to look at other famous tourist attraction that day. Basically most tourist attractions are located near to the Piazza Duomo which is where the galleria, the Duomo cathedral and Park Hyatt and tons of other 5 star hotels and good restaurants are located.

So we walked to most of the tourist attractions. The first one was the ever famous Duomo Cathedral.

Piazza Duomo, Galleria-left hand and the cathedral on the right.

This picture almost cost us 5 Euro, a local I tink approached us with a handful of dried corns and ask us whether we want to feed the pigeons. Of course i ignored him but then my dum dum bro got cheated and he drop the corns onto his hand...then asked for 5 euros. Bad luck for him 2 policemen were passing by so we purposely argue with him to attract the policemen attention haha so in the end he left.

OK. Probably some will start to think this is boring and start looking at the pictures d but anw im gonna write a detail report la, so screw you bitches.

Then we went to the Castello Sforzesco. Do not take the tram. It might look as if its heading towards the castle but no it doesnt and different to Melbourne, the tram stops are super far apart. So yea we had change schedule to visit the Santa Maria delle Grazie. This church houses The Last Supper by Leornado Da Vinci but to bad for us, the visiting inside is only by appointment so we took a pic and head to the castle.

The rest of the day we just walked around Milan cbd had gelato, breathing in Milan's winter air, thinking y i am so short when comparing to the ang mo's. Lucky it wasnt a fashion week if not i will be like hobbit among all the models walking down the streets....

dont laugh, that goes to half of u out there too.

To be Continued...