Travel

We left Saas Fee and made a B line for Milan, we heard Paris Hilton was in town and really, what vacation is complete without a Paris Hilton sighting…? actually we wanted to check out the infamous Duomo, cathedral to the stars. Interestingly, I don’t recall much about anything during this part of the trip because at this point I was nearly deaf with some sort of weird altitude sickness. What a surreal feeling walking through the Milano train station, literally bustling with travellers, shoppers, fashionistas, everyone seemingly in a huge hurry – and me completely deaf. It was like walking through a bunch of people in fast forward but on mute. A little too much glam for me… Milano doesn’t strike me as a city friendly to a guy who’s been wearing the same shirt and jeans for the last two weeks. I kind of felt like I should be wearing prada aviators, and be carrying a jewelled designer backpack or something. The Duomo was really cool, rumour has it they can fit 40,000 worshippers inside. We didn’t have a whole lot of time between trains, so we stayed pretty close to the Duomo and the station – good thing, because I hear they require a credit card just to walk past the stores in the shopping district. Next… on to Venezia, look out Casanova!

Today is our last day in the Fee. We celebrated with an amazing home cooked, traditional German lunch (thanks Oma) at the Barbiero’s, and then said our goodbye’s to Angelo and Gabrielle.  We spent the rest of the day on the patio at No One (Sheila’s friend Franzi’s bar) relaxing and killing time before we head out this evening to Don Ciccio’s for dinner. The time has gone by very quickly, and I’m going to miss these screwed up European keyboards that I have finally got the hang of.  We took some more pictures of the Saas Fee crew, and are going to call it an early night (hopefully I get rid of this stupid cold soon)