Friday 6-28

Well the WiFi has ceased to function, so ill be posting this as well as ones for Saturday and Sunday when it's available. No one works in the office at the apartment on the weekend so it will be Monday at the earliest when it's working again. Yesterday, Friday, we took a bus tour of the rest of the city that we didn't see on Thursday. A couple of my favorite parts of the trip included seeing a fountain shaped like a wedding cake in front of the Castello Sforzesco, St. Mark's Basilica, which hosted Mozart as a teen, and San Siro Stadium. The stadium is host to mostly soccer matches, holding about 60 a year for the home teams AC Milan and Inter Milan. Voted the 2nd most beautiful stadium by the NY Times, the largest stadium in Italy holds 80,000 people. We're going to try and catch a game there while we're here. I also got more information on the Duomo. Behind St. Peter's Basilica, it's Italy's second largest cathedral and can hold 40,000 people. We drove down Buenos Aires, a shipping stretch that's 2KM long, the longest in Europe. It has designers such as Gucci and Prada as well as more affordable options. After the tour, Sarah and I made pasta for dinner. It wasn't the best I've ever had but at least I didn't have to go out for another meal. Around 10:30, 6 of us went out to checkout the nightlife. We took the metro to the Castello Sforzesco and found a fun bar in the massive park. It was all outside, had fun music, and the drinks were tasty. The weather was slightly on the chilly side but there was a good amount of people there so we kept warm. It'll be fun to go back there and to others nearby in the park. 

View from the bus

Milan's first skyscraper. Built in the 50s due to WWII destruction. Milan is so modern for the most part due to the destruction incurred in WWII. 

San Siro Stadium

Really long wall filled with graffiti done by graffiti artists from all over Europe. It was on the way to the stadium and had a lot of soccer illustrations. 

First Italian-made meal

Olivia, me, Sam