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[violachic]

Did I mention I had an enormous layover in Milan on my way to Palestine?





The Duomo cathedral


More Duomo


Proof of Duomo


The Duomo subway stop, and the Ministry of Tourism


Pigeons in the Piazza (hey, that would be a great name for a band)


The Duomo, with the entrance to the really cool mall of shops next to it


The aforementioned mall


Looking down one arm of the cross-shaped tunnel


The dome


McDonalds: The Ultimate Meme


Statue to Leonardo Da Vinci


Inscription on the statue (one of four)


La Scala Opera House


Publicity poster at the opera house


Piazza de la Scala


More La Scala proof


Joe Green Street (yes, I think I'm funny)


Scooters are fricking everywhere, man!

Comments

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'm so jealous. No trees though. And McDonalds?

[innocent-irony.livejournal.com]

Mm.
Strangely, us eurpoeans have commercialism.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

I'm just saying...McDonalds? Pretty soon all europe will be a mall/parking lot!

;-)

[innocent-irony.livejournal.com]

You haven't looked too closely have you? Lol. It already is. We ran out of room for roadspace.

Mille grazie!

[febrile.livejournal.com]

Ach. Want. To. Go.

I took two semesters of Italian in college from some woolheaded notion of wanting to be able to translate Dante. I wasn't a very good student in that class, and don't remember a lick of it.

But I still want to trek off to Firenze and hand out on the Ponte Vecchio with a bottle of grappa some day.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, it is a city, after all :-P

Re: Mille grazie!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

The only Italian I know are musical terms... which, oddly enough ;-) actually mean something in conversational Italian, albeit something different.

I have never tasted grappa. I'm not entirely certain what it is.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

The pics are freaking Amazing. You can tell we were trying to copy european cities in America. My german/french friend ria says, "You americans are just trying to copy the french, you have no character of your own yet."

"Sure we do", "McDonalds"

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked closely enough.

I keep telling people in downtown SF that they should block the streets to car traffic and let all our resturants and shops open up into the streets. The yuppies in the high rise buildings should be able to walk a few more blocks for the pleasure of having a cool bohemian center of town. It'd be like Paris, I tell them...

Re: Mille grazie!

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

I have never tasted grappa. I'm not entirely certain what it is.

I've tasted it (ick) and I feel the same way. Its made from pressed skins and the seeds of grapes.

Re: Mille grazie!

[febrile.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've not had it, either. I'm told it's rather vile, actually.

[kymc.livejournal.com]

glad you had the opportunity to visit long enough to see a handfull of things!

looks like you had a good time!

you even found joe green street!

[innocent-irony.livejournal.com]

Lol.
Wierd person thou art.

The idea does make me laugh however

[innocent-irony.livejournal.com]

Yeah I have. Well.. actually no. To both have i been but not to the centres. It was an odd antitourism point / laziness point we made im sure.

They mgiht flourish in london but.. well heck.. london even to the outskirts is crazy enough as it is... if you were to pedestrianise some of the centre streets i think it would be suicide.