Milano, Italia : Janvier 2013

It’s sad that I have not been really disciplined on documenting my everyday adventures when I was in my six-month stay in France / Europe. Now, I feel like every post are less authentic and genuine. Nevertheless, I thrive on what my memory has left for me and I trust that they are as close to the real thing as possible.

So let’s keep my travel posts moving and my blog alive. Today, we’re set to (re)visit (my trip to) Milano, Italia.

After my Brussels trip, I called Ricky and Hans back in Nice to see how they were doing. It was during this time that Hans invited me to their upcoming trip to Milano on the 4th of January, just in time after my scheduled flight back to Nice from Lille on the 3rd. So a few hours after my plane landed to the Nice airport from the north of France, I was on a train ride going to the north of Italy !

It was a 40 minute train ride from Nice to the border of Italy (Ventimiglia) and another four hours on another train from Ventimiglia to Milano Centrale.

After a five-minute metro ride from Milano Centrale, we got off looking at this marvelous view of the Duomo !Look at those people on the grand square just in front of the majestic cathedral !

I’m already covered in layers of clothing but the winter air is just getting through ! I try my best to smile it all off.

And with a little help from my team (Dan as director of photography, Hans as my PA and Rick as the photographer), posing it all out, too on the statue across!

The holidays may have already ended but not for the Christmas market!

We also dropped by the nearby chic Galleria.But the real purpose of our trip was to visit the famous Abercrombie shop where we can have our photos taken for free with the (sexy) models lol

It was a short day trip but it was definitely something ! Going back to Nice was a story. To cut the long story short, we all missed the last train from Ventimiglia to Nice. It was a good thing that there were ample of passengers heading back to France that we were able to convince the authorities to have one last ride back to Nice Ville at 23h30. I panicked for a while because I was experiencing trouble with my stomach since that morning and I have not been able to satisfy it. I thought we were spending the night in the train station and that was not ideal because it was extremely cold !