Our "Friends" picture in front of the fountain
funny anecdote: we asked an Italian guy to take the picture, and when he saw we were about to hand him 5 cameras he said "oh no, I'm not an octapussy!" hahah
A castle, a Carlo, and a crazy italian landlord September 12th 2007 Ciao tutti!
Okay so here are some highlights of the past few days (oh you knew it was only a matter of time until I started making lists):
1) Yesterday we went on a night tour of Castello Sforzesco. It's this huge 550 year old castle right in the middle of downtown Milan. Can you imagine any kind of equivalent of that in the US? It's crazy. So anyway, we went at night because you can climb u ... read more
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