Hotel Berna - Milan, Italy (9/23/16)

We kinda slept in this morning, but found a full buffet breakfast in the hotel lobby.  After breakfast, we headed out for a day of Milan, which pretty much means visiting the Duomo di Milano.  Our first challenge was the Milan Metro, with a little homework, I had enough information to successfully get on and off at the right place.

The Duomo is huge and gothic.  Deb decided early on that we needed an audio guide to figure out what we are looking at.  Soon we came to a statue of St Bartholomew.  It was an interesting stàtue, but the audio guide told us that his skin is flayed and draped over his shoulder. Wow, kinda more information than we wanted.

Also at Duomo Di Milano, you can walk around on the roof.  From the roof you can see all the flying buttresses, statues, gargoyles, and all of Milan, including a nice looking place for lunch, on the roof of a seven floor designer fashion and home furnishing store.

The afternoon was frustrated by Milan's lack of a gridded road structure.  All the roads that started in the right direction turned.   After several hours of searching for a castle, which turned out to be fairly uninteresting, we found a gelato stand and a metro station.

Back to the hotel, cocktails, and a nice sidewalk dinner.