Day 9: Milan

This morning, we went and got breakfast downstairs again.  Again, I only got fruit, but it’s really good.  Then we went to the lobby to meet for our tour of Milan.  We got to experience the Metro, and rode to town where the cathedral is.  There were some men right when you get up the stairs trying to sell bracelets, and they just put it on my wrist after I said no like 8 times, I didn’t end up paying for it, but it was pretty ridiculous.  We then went to the cathedral, and this time  we browsed around inside for about 30 minutes.  Whole group in front of cathedral:

Afterwards, we walked to an old castle, that was also unbelievably huge.  It looked like a spot that one of those ghost hunter TV shows would go.  We must have seen like 3 or 4 Chinese brides, I guess it’s not uncommon to get married around there, or maybe they were just getting pictures, but it was odd. The tour finished about noon, and we were on our own.  Check out the map of this castle, click below:

The group I was with went to Prada to look around, then to a spot with some restaurants, but it was so crowded most of us got Burger King because it was the quickest and cheapest.  Everything from BK was exactly the same as in the states, maybe better! They had chicken wings though! Then we headed to a GIANT department store.  We rode up about 10 escalators to the top floor, where it was mostly foods.  We then rode down, and headed out.  We hopped on the metro again and went to the hotel.  Linden left for Serbia about 2:15, and Jessica and I went to get some gelato.  I got chocolate this time, and it tasted like brownie mix, it was SOO good, but very rich, I couldn’t finish it.  I then got back to the room and took the best bubble bath ever.  And I just about finished up packing.

That night, we went to eat our “farewell dinner” at Trattoria Bagutta.  We had a big salad, rice with saffron – pretty good, they gave us tons, the main course was breaded veal cutlet, which completely made up for that veal bratwurst.  This was actually really good – it kind of looked like a country fried steak, but it was veal. For dessert, we got “Creme Caramel”, which YES it SOUNDS delicious! BUT, yikes. It looked like flan, wiggled like Jell-O, and was a yellow-white color with a thin caramel-ish sauce on it, and most of us just ended up playing with it after we took one bite – trying to make it look like we actually ate some! All in all, this was a great restaurant, I will admit.  We headed back to the hotel, and packed up for an early start tomorrow.