Time flew away and I never got a chance to write about my trip to
Milan. But it's most definitely worth a post so I'll sum it up with mostly pictures and a few words.
I've been to Milan before and had mixed feelings about returning.
The first time I visited I was with a group of Italians and liked the city a
lot, the second time I was alone and felt uncomfortable and uneasy. This time I
was visiting my good friend Jess and saw a new side of the city that made me
love it like I did the first time. In fact, it wasn't just one side of Milan that I saw, but a
multiplicity of layers in a city people often typecast as being cold and
unwelcoming. Beyond the concrete, the overtly-touristy (and pigeon-populated)
Piazza del Duomo, behind the shiny veneer of all the fashion shop-fronts, Milan
has a second skin that perhaps you don't find as a tourist. Strolling through
Autumn parks, relaxing on plant-covered roof terraces, drinking a suspicious
drink they call 'Tropical Island' in a square full of people beneath the oldest
columns in all of the city, and eating possibly the best cheese-cake in all of
Italy. I would return to Milan only for the cheesecake, but if not for all the
rest of it too...
