First Day in Milan,Italy April 6, 2010
Posted by tiffany in : Milano , trackbackWe were hoping to take a bus from Geneva to Milan (going through the mountain tunnels mess with my ears too much) but we ended up taking a train anyway. The good thing is that it took five hours by train so I can only imagine how long it would take by bus.
We spent most of today on the train eating Nutella and bread, looking out the window (when we weren’t in the middle of a mountain), and taking small cat naps. It was strikingly obvious when the train changed countries. Before we went into a tunnel it was mostly farms and the roof and building styles looked at though they had Flemming influence and on the other side the building were all pressed together with terracotta roofs. A lot of the stops after we crossed into Italy were very nice (we were talking about making a trip to one of these towns, such as Braveno ). There was one stop that was the perfect image of Italy: a lake with many pale buildings with terracotta roofs, Palm Trees, Cypress Trees, Sail boats; all surrounded by snow capped mountains.
So when we finally got to Milan, Italy we went in search of an ATM and wound up asking directions from a Tram ticket kiosk and making the teller very angry. We tried three different languages to see if there was any way he would understand what we were asking and he kept saying, “you’re in Italy, speak Italian!” and the angrier he became, the more he used hand gestures! Eventually we gave up and moved on. We managed just fine by ourselves after that.
So we did the typical thing after we got our hotel room; ate Pizza and later in the evening, Gelato! We’ll be exploring the city more tomorrow
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