My day started quite slowly. In the last few weeks, I have done quite a lot of coming and going on the trains that I am appreciating being in just one place for a few days. As I was having breakfast, I was thinking that I am probably not eating enough of certain things like vegetables. It is virtually impossible to eat completely healthy on a trip like this. What I have been eating is this. Nutella … I didn’t realize that this was so popular in Europe. It is everywhere and absolutely divine on a croissant!! I actually saw a cookbook dedicated to the chocolate hazelnut wonder. Proscuttio … you would think that this stuff was being discontinued and that I was on my last chance to eat it. Espresso … I will have to ... read more

And the title of this blog says it all … well that and the number of tick marks that were made on my Verona Card. You'll see the photo. Ironically I actually got a relatively late start to the day. Like I mentioned yesterday, there are a number of attractions that are closed on Monday so I had to do a bit of strategic planning! So I set off and landed in Piazza Erbe where I had been the day prior. This time around, there were a number of vendors setting up their wares. It was mostly souvenirs but there were also food stalls. I poked around in that for a bit and then headed to the nearby Torre Dei Lamberti. It is a large watchtower that was built between the 12th and 15th century. Because ... read more

Contrary to my usual ramblings, this is actually going to be just a short post. I took the day to visit Como which many of you know because George Clooney has a home here in a little town on Lake Como. It is about an hour's train ride from Milan and apart from the Duomo there is nothing particular to visit (or at least anything that I was interested in visiting). There is some incredible shopping to be had though. My day was really spent walking around the small streets of the town. I had thought of taking the boat trip out to some of the other towns that lie on the shores of Lake Como (like Bellagio) but this would have involved a two-hour boat ride just going (there is a speed boat but even ... read more

Today was the day that I was saying hello to Milano. The train ride was uneventful really. The hotel I am staying at (My Hotel Milano) is a little bit more in the suburbs but easily accessible by subway. The only reason that I had problems finding it was that I thought it was at number 46 but it was actually number 14. Ooops …don’t know where 46 came from! Probably the hotel in Turin had that numbered address. Who knows … at this point I am amazed that I wake up and that I actually know in which city I am. Still don’t know what day of the week it is though without looking it up! It had to be the loveliest welcome I have ever had in a hotel room. When I introduced myself, ... read more

I woke up this morning and I think that the hectic-ness of the last couple of weeks had finally caught up to me. I was definitely travel weary. Even after a hearty breakfast, I was still a little sluggish. I figured that I would head out and just see how it would go. In the end, I did get quite a few things done but it was a slow start. I had no sense of direction and my legs felt like lead. I knew that I was going to have a few of those days so in Turin it was. It did not take away at all from enjoying what I did manage to squeeze though. The first stop was another thing that I been looking forward to and that was the Museo Nazionale de Cinema. ... read more