Milan Duomo

What We Saw in Milan

We were in Milan for 3 days. The Duomo: This is a gorgeous church that seems as large as a village. The outside looks like a white fairy castle – or like a pre-melting Sagrada Familia. Then, there are statues all along the outside, so that even seeing all of one part of one side…

Milanese Steak

What We Ate in Milan

Taglio: We were trying to eat lunch at an unreasonably late hour (4:30), as usual, so we wandered in here. We held out hope for sustenance because there was a couple out front finishing up some food. Alas, we learned that the kitchen was closed until dinner. We learned this in Italian, because we must have…

Milan Colonne

Milling About Police-less

On a Wednesday night in Milan, we strolled home after a filling dinner that began at 10:30 pm. The strolling was less an attempt to mirror the Italian tradition and more a necessity of the quantity of food we had consumed. When we had gone to dinner, the streets had been lively, filled with people…