Buongiorno!
Our second day in Milan was much sunnier and full of many
nice people. / Meie teine päev Milanos oli palju päikselisem ja kohtasime
paljusid toredaid inimesi.
We only reached to one conclusion – travelling with
backpacks is great until you do not have to carry them around the town all day
along. / Me jõudsime järelduseni, et seljakottidega reisimine on tore kuniks
neid ei pea kaasas vedama.
But enjoy the rest of the writing! / Head lugemist!
In the morning, after we had done all the things that needed
doing – e.g. found ourselves a host for the night, we packed our things and
started to move towards the city center once more. Before we left the hostel,
we met one of the guys who we shared the flat, got to know that he is a train
electrician and exchanged contacts.
Quickly after leaving the hostel, we found this nice bakery,
where this really nice Italian guy sold us a panini with meat and tomato + two
strawberry basket-cakes for 9€. They tasted very good, so we decided to take a
picture with him before moving on.
Later we walked about four to five kilometers until we
arrived to Duomo, where we started to look a place that would offer three
things: food, free Wi-Fi and free toilet – apparently not a common mixture here
in Italy. On the way, we bought a piece of coconut for 1€ and ate it. Finally
we decided to go back to the pizza place we visited the day before, as we knew
they already had it all – ordered a salami pizza and a beer for 14.50€.
Then we went to search a shop called Kilo Fascione, where
they supposedly sold clothes per kilo, but we could not find it. As it was hot,
we decided to get some cold drinks from a kiosk-car nearby and ordered a lemon
and a peppermint slurpy for 2€ each. The lemon one was good as always,but the
other one was just awful – never try it!
It was still hot and we were tired, so we tried to go to
cinema, but all the films were in Italian, so we decided to pass it and walked
to Castello Sforzesco, where we heard that there is a park, where we could have
some leisure time. Arriving there, we took out a blanket and laid on it,
relaxing for an hour or so. Then we walked through the Castello and decided to
move back to the city central and towards the place where we were supposed to
meet our host for the night.
Firstly we took a tram to Duomo and then walked towards
Central Station, looking for an open shop or bar, where to get one drink and
visit the toilet, but there were non – all of the places were either closed
already or on holidays until the end of August. Apparently everybody is on
vacation in August – so never go to Italy, or at least Milan in August :D.
Finally we got to Central Station, where we got to visit the
free toilet of McDonald’s (if you want to go to toilet or find Wi-Fi, McDonald’s
is your place everywhere in the world). As Lele had a taste for Coke, we also
bought one for 2.50€ and then went on the metro for 1.50€ each, towards
Precotto station, where we were supposed to meet our host Anna, the Opera
singer from Siberia.
When we arrived there the only supermarket we saw until this
point was closing, but they let us in to get all of our things in 3 minutes –
it still took us 5 to find it all, after we had ran through all two floors of
the shop and we ended up with two coffee yogurts, some bakeries, a Frizzante
and a lemon ice tea, all for 6.14€.
Now we had half an hour to wait, until Anna was going to pick
us up so we just sat at the bus stop playing 2048 on my iPhone.
Finally Anna arrived and we
walked to her home. There she told us that her boyfriend hosts 600 people a
year and never hosts anyone for less than a couple of days, but as he was out
of town, Anna decided to help us for this night. We also shared the Frizzante
and the girls talked about singing, while I was looking for a host in our next
stop – Bologna. Anna also showed me the site blablacar, where I managed to find
myself a driver, who was going to take us to Bologna in the next morning.
Finally it was time to go to bed.
All in all our expenses were the following:
* 9€ for the bakeries.
* 1€ for the coconut.
* 14.50€ for pizza, beer and service.
* 4€ for two slurpies.
* 2.50€ for Coke
* 3€ for metro tickets.
* 6.14€ for food at the supermarket.
= 40.14€ in total.
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Have a nice day! / Ilusat päeva!
Sander Gansen
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