$ Milano $

From Rome Italy on New Years Day to Milan Italy for the first 3 days of 2011! My time with the organized traveling group I had joined ended in Rome and it was up to me to find my way back to ‘home’ in Aberdeen, Scotland. Since all connecting flights from Rome to Scotland, first went to Milan, I decided to make a ‘pit-stop’ in Milan for a few days before heading back to Aberdeen to finish my final coursework.

Milan is known as the ‘design capital’ of Europe and is also home of Italy’s stock exchange. Milan was the perfect break in between the busy-ness of traveling from London to Rome and before returning back to the reality of graduate school.

Milan is full of high-end, luxury shopping, shopping, shopping – Prada, Dolce and Gabanna, Hermes, Tiffany’s, and Louis Vuiton literally filled the streets!

The most breath-taking historical site – found right in the middle of all the shopping and in the city center, is the Duomo. As you walk along the streets of Milan and come to the city center you are taken away by The Duomo Cathedral! The pinnacles of the cathedral are almost palace like as they reach towards the sky.

I enjoyed my last few days in Milan relaxing, window shopping (no actual shopping took place), and café hopping – sampling all the cappuccino, and brioche possible. Brioche is what the Italians call croissants. I enjoyed vanilla crème, nutella, chocolate, and my favorite caramel crème filled brioche!

I also started reading up on EGYPT! My next big adventure is heading off to Egypt for 2 weeks before my second semester starts in February!