Milan

Sorry I meant the food tends to be quite expensive compared to Glasgow, not rubbish.

So everything Duke says except expensive food rather than rubbish food

I remember I ate in a little restaurant in the centre.

They charged 5 euros for bread. 25 euros for a piece of chicken (the steak was the same price) with nothing else. No green, no nothing. Chips were 9 euros and the beer was 15 euros. Cost the three of us 150 euros to eat there and we barely got a thing.

My brothers went to McDonalds instead, never thought I'd be jealous of that.

Milan gets a bad vote from me probably because I went and saw Chelsea lose to Inter there

Wiretapper's description is very good. The metro is pretty good, better than getting a taxi with a crazy man.

Taxis

That reminded me of my journey back to the airport

Cant remember if it was Turin or Milan but we sat at 140k the whole way sitting on the bumper of anything in front

Frightening....

Duke. I had the same experience in Rome. One time the driver was about 90. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that he had managed to survive that long without killing himself

A gas Cooker
Then on to the Church
Followed by a wee stroll roon the shops
Get some rubbish food
Then take in a game

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The quintessential trip overseas

comment by bmcl1987 (U14177)
posted 10 minutes ago
A gas Cooker
Then on to the Church
Followed by a wee stroll roon the shops
Get some rubbish food
Then take in a game

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The quintessential trip overseas

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You canny beat a bit of class

For my sins I went out with no less than TWO Italian women both of whom lived in Milan (one from Milan proper, one from Sicily, both gorgeous in fairness).

I would visit Milan once or twice a month so I know it fairly well.

Wire is spot on with his suggestions, the Duomo is fantastic (go get up on the roof), the Castello is also cool. I used to enjoy drinking beer at the "san lorenzo colonne" which is a series of old Roman columns near the city center. Nice place to sit, drink and soak in the local atmosphere.

Otherwise, the park behind the castello is nice (siempone park I think its called), there's an interesting art museum called the Trienale in there.

I would check out the "canali" district (basically got a canal running through it). You can get some nice restaurants and bars around there.

Also, if your looking for good value for money, eat at the places offering "happy hour". I think this was usually between 5pm and 8pm or something (a lot of places do this). Basically you go and buy a 10 euro cocktail (mojito for me) and then you get all-you-can-eat at their buffet (nothing fancy, little sandwiches, torta, rice, pasta, breaded chicken etc.). Great way to enjoy the city without getting ripped off.

Milan is a great town, helps if you know a few locals to show you around. The restaurants can be delicious and not really that expensive (just avoid the obvious tourist traps). Although I lived in Dublin for 4 years so was probably used to getting ripped off.

Now thanks for dredging up all those happy memories, I'm away to have a cry.

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Milan's okay but there aint a lot more to it than folk have already said - make a point of getting up on the roof of the kirk though !

Best thing to do is use the train to explore the area around Milan - great to use and cheap although they don't run very late to some places. Turin is not bad - go and see the shroud (or nutella factory !) Verona is quite nice and worth a look - the arena for a venue is stunning. Lake Garda is quite nice but prefer Lake Como (Bellagio is stunning). And if you fancy a couple of hours on the train Venice is worth a few trips - last trip I got chucked out of Harry's bar !

has the shroud not been proven to be fake or at least nothing like as old as they make it out to be?