After many hours of travel; sleeping with my head on a American Airlines 777 dinner tray from Chicago, circumnavigating the maze of terminals and security at Heathrow, and being delayed several hours waiting for my Alitalia flight to depart I had finally arrived at Milan Malpensa. Now anyone who has been to Malpensa knows that it is far from being in Milan. You need to take an express train from Malpensa to Milan proper, speaking little (well none really) Italian I managed to find the station for the express train in the terminal, buy a ticket, and embark on my journey into Milan. Now the train goes into Stazione Centrale, which was no where near where my hotel was, so looking at the map I had purchased at the Borders before I left I decided
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