Marilu's English has improved a lot since she visited Australia, as she has taken it upon herself to study with her children when they have homework, she managed to be a great tour guide of Milan for the day. Too bad our Italian skills are pretty much non-existent.We arrived from the underground into the Piazza Del Duomo in the centre of Milan with its amazing gothic cathedral, the largest in Italy (and fourth largest in the world). Apart from its sheer size we were struck by how clean it was, many of the others we've seen in Europe have generally been in various shades of black. On the downside though there were huge fashion advertisements on the side of the cathedral .... it may have been the beginning of the fashion season, but it did seem a little strange to us.
We walked to the Galleria where you are meant to grind your heel into testicles of the ceramic picture of the bull on the floor for good luck - we watched other tourists do it but decided to give it a skip ourselves, of course there are no testicles left, just a depression a few centimetres deep! After that was the museum at La Scala, where we managed to catch the tail end of an orchestra rehearsal.
We returned to the cathedral for a closer look at the inside, then after lunch we first walked along Via Monte Napoleon (where they were setting up for Fashion Week) to look in the windows of the fashion shops that we could never afford, then headed to the Castello and the nearby gardens, before returning back home.That evening we were treated to homemade gnocchi (made by Pietro), along with more relatives that had come to visit. After dinner we headed back into town with Stefano for a walk along the canals (designed by Leonardo Da Vinci), and a pleasant drink at one of the many bars.
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