Milano, Milano et es hotto!!!

First, we are going to start with some pictures.

The Kid and I trained here, then walked back..maybe 5 miles. 

View from the trail through the vineyards 

Our restauarant in Milan...candles cause power was out

Ok, not in focus but I was hungry

Duomo...fourth largest church in Europe

Along a center corridor

Looking down the middle of the church

Stained glass window

Shopping center...prices knocked me down.  Across from Duomo Technially the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II  with origins in 1865

Just dreaming

Lenny..genius behind the Last Supper

They ride and park all over Milan

This is an inner courtyard of an apartment complex

Sforzesco Castle in Milan...from 1368

Church of S Maria Delle Grazie..on the left is the building housing The Last Supper.

Church from the courtyard..hard to tell from the street

Milano's massive train station, undergoing rennovation

One of many figures on the station

Entry way to trains and tickets and "home"

Chunky says.........If you have made it this far, congratulations.
Milan was a test of sorts.  I am comfortable in Paris, but Milan was new.  The language was new.  Transportation was new.  Heck, I even had to find a new word for croissant!  But the attraction in Milan is old......older than our country in fact.  Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper in 1495-1498. It is massive.  During WW II the city was bombed and the building was damaged...but the wall the painting was on was intact.
Sheri and I enjoyed gelato......Jackie enjoyed the coolness of the a/c in the hotel lobby when it proved too hot for her to be out wandering around.  We ate a great (for me, anyway) meal in an old palace that was supposed to be a pizza parlor but was a fine restaurant. (Yes Dan, I was not listening to the directions and flipped the two places but it turned out well.)
It's a busy city, noisy, congested, Italians drive like crazies.  Our train into the city was 40 minutes late, the a/c didn't work well...but hey, life happens.
No bed bugs, no problems, and a new experience to log in the book of life.
Gimpy says......It was EXTREMELY hot in Milan.  I think both days were over 90 or even hotter.  The hotel was air conditioner (Thank God!) and very nice.  We got in about 5, Terry and Sheri walked around a bit, then we had to decide where we would have supper.  The man at the desk suggested some place, but we decided no and ended up there anyway.  But the electricity was off in our area of Milan and we had to wait until went on again, abut half an hour.  Do you know that 900 meters is almost a half a mile?  Think we could remember that as I started to walk it.  Well we couldn't but I made it anyway.  Tuesday was hot again and after I went down to where we could get our tour, decided it was better to go back to the air conditioned hotel while Chunky and the Kid did the tour.  Best idea ever!
The train trip home was about a  half hour shorter do to no delays in Italy(I don't think they care about train schedules and much cooler when we got back to Julia's.
The Kid says....Terry and Jackie pretty much summoned it all up.  The Last Supper was incredible to see. The replicas that I have seen in my lifetime don't come close to the soft, beautiful art that da Vinci created.  I wished we could have been allowed to view it longer (only allowed 15 minutes).  I also wished Jackie could have made the tour with us.  It was just way too hot!  Terry and I also visited the Duomo.  It's massive size left me speechless.  Well, we're back in Switzerland and ready for another adventurous day!