Come with me if you want to live: Break from studying: Easter holiday in Italy

Hello again people. Hope everyone had a good Easter and got their serving of Mämmi for the year. As we have a massive two week break at the TU Graz we decided to take a looong vacation and go tour northern Italy. Our tour de Italy consists of Milan - Turin - La Spezia - Mantua - Venice. My family will come to meet us in Venice for the last stint of the trip to celebrate some family occasions. Anne and I have been in Italy for a week and I am writing this currently in Mantua or Mantova, depending on language. Sorry, the blogs are going to be little lagging behind as its hard to make the time when on vacation and not all our accommodations have Wifi and posting requires a lot of that Internet thingy. Also, since the trip is 15 days and I don’t want to write 15 different posts I might compact things up into a few days and only go over the bigger things we have done and just post pictures of others. On top of that I might not have the energy to double check every typing or name of place so there will be some mistakes somewhere. Hope you can keep up as the next many posts will be about Italy.

We started our trip by flying from Vienna to Milan. This sounds little odd, but surprisingly there is very little trains and buses from Graz to Italy and they are slow, and we didn’t want to make 12-hour bus rides. Milan was not originally in our plan, but there were no direct flights to Turin which was our first major goal. So, Milan was the closest we could get, and we had a late flight, so we decided to stay the night in Milan and in the morning go around for a few hours and then head to Turin on a train.

In Milan with our few hours we had to spend there we just wanted to wander the old town and see the highlights. We went to see the Cathedral Il Duomo, which was nice and big. Surprisingly the churches were not super crowded even though it was close to Easter. Only thing relating to that there was an orchestra practising their Easter show so we got to hear a little of it for free while we toured the massive church. When we were there it was two days after the Notre Dame fire in Paris and lots of people had that in mind when you over heard conversations and there was also renovations being done to the roof of Il Duomo. The cathedral was big, but not sure what else to say about it. After that we walked through the fancy market building Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. It is a nice building, but we can only dream of shopping there. On our way out we stopped by a big Ferrari store which was cool, but again high prices scared us away. From there we had a quick lunch and headed to Turin. That is where I will continue in my next post. Later.