10/04/2007 02:52:00 PM
gents
hey guys, i just came back from milan, the fashion capital. but alas, it was not as great as i imgained it to be. maybe because half the time was spent slacking at the hotel, eating and sleeping. haha. this is what happens when i have a friend on the flight. italian food is really bad over in milan. it resembles a little like dog food, gross. surprise surprise they eat quite abit of raw food togetehr with olive and vinegar, which is not my cup of tea at all! they drink tons of coffee, and they do it standing up. like just gulp it down and off they go. there are absolutely no starbucks there, well, i did not see any. i was starving to death there. i ate like roasted chicken for dinner 3 days in a row, and like macs twice. how sad. even the pizza there taste strange. the italian food we have overseas is really the watered down version.
this cathedral is very very beautifull. i think it is constantly under construction. it is located at DUMO- a walking street like orchard road. just come out of the subway and you will see this mother huge cathedral.
me outside the ferrari shop
me at the railway station. waititng for my train to venice which is at 755am. it is a three hours train journey there. oooh, quite excited.
finally we are here at venice. the train ride was a tad bit uncomfortable. because of the constrained leg space. tian li you would have died in there.
my batch girl and me. that is venice behind us! water and more water everywhere.
the gonzola. it is freaking expensive i tell you. 80 euros for the nicer ones like this and 60 euros for the not so grand one. i ended up taking the ferry ride which was their main mode of transport which cost 6 euros.
another picture of venice. venice is full of hotels everywhere. and their mode of survival is tourism. basically the whole of venice looks like this, you can see in the next few photos. it was sunday, so most of the shops were closed.
one of the many shops selling all these face mask. venice is famous for these masks. they are expensive i tell you. but very beautiful and scary looking. they don't allow us to take a picture inside the shop, only outside.
okay my train is here. and my ticket back to milan. i got bored of venice after 5 hours there. but it is a nice place to go, something very different. you don't see any buses or trams or cars over there. just lots of boats, ferries and water. ciao ciao!
