Day 66: Milan Verdict
Thursday - July 22, 2010:
I have my final verdict on Milan. But I've decided to make you wait until the end of the post to find out.
I want this to be the Most. Dramatic. Verdict. Ever. (Copyright Chris Harrison)
So, to start things off light I will tell you what we did today on our last day in Milan. This morning at 10 the group split into two, one group of fashion students and one group of interior design students (and the girls that were neither could chose which group to go with). The design group spent the day with Massimo seeing design stores and artsy stuff, while the fashion group was toured around my Massimo's assistant, Valentina.
Our group of eight (the design group got all the other girls except for two... we didn't get offended) took the Metro to meet Valentina. First impression -- she's precious, let me be her! Not to mention she set us up with some pretty cool tours, so she's good at what she does.
Our first tour was a bit of fashion and a bit of design combined -- we visited the Moschino Hotel in Milan. When we walked through the glass doors, I knew we were in for a show. The entire room was decorated so immaculately and so chic! There were dress forms as floor lamps and fancy oragami hanging from the ceiling. I only got a few pictures before I was promptly told that they weren't allowed!
(picturreeess)
Valentina greeted a tall Italian man, and this ended up being our guide for the hotel. He told us that the hotel has only been open since March and that each of it's rooms have a special theme to them. This made us curious, so we headed up the stairs to see what he was talking about. Only pictures can do them justice, and since we couldn't take pictures, Valentina is emailing us photos. So I'll add them as soon as I get them -- you'll be in awe!
Behind the first door was the "Bee Room". It had one giant Bee formed from metal "z" letters and the rest was all pristine white.
Then there was the "Red Dress Room". The headboard of the bed was a red velvet dress and this theme flowed onto the bedspread (kind of hard to explain).
And there was the "cloud room", which was all white with white accent furniture.
And there was the "gold room" -- my favorite! I wanted to take everything and bring it back home with me.
I promise, it is 100x cooler than it sounds -- I'm watering it down!
After the hotel, Valentina led us to this store called 10 Corso Como, and it is where you go in Milan if you want to see what's in style. They have major designer's clothing, like Balenciaga and Prada, and couture footwear -- it was all the type of merchandise that I dream of and never think I'd be in the presence of. They also carried accessories and books... It was amazing! And it also had a major design element to it because it was in a renovated garage and it had all of this fabulous decor decorating the store. The design girls would have flipped!
These two stops took up our alotted time with Valentina, so we had to get back on the Metro to go to the hotel after Corso Como. We all didn't have anything for the afternoon planned except for a 4:45 viewing of the Last Suppper. So a group of us went to lunch at this random restaurant we walked in -- lucky choice! Lucky because the people were so nice and so accomodating to us and because they had one of my favorite meals I've discovered since Gaudi's Pizzeria -- a calzone with mozzarella, ham and ricotta cheese. Yum! Of course I order it, and it's fabulous again! Just like I remembered.
After lunch Anna, Kasi and I went back to a store we'd visited yesterday, and then met the rest of the group at 4:20. The Program didn't schedule us a visit to see the Leonardo's Last Supper painting, so we took it upon ourselves to buy tickets and go see it while in Milan. We all met up and waited together until it was our turn to see the painting.
When the doors opened and we entered this big, white walled room, the only thing of focus was the Last Supper painting -- I liked that. It got all the attention. And it took up one whole side of the wall. There was another painting of the Crucifixion on the opposite end that had been done by Leonardo's student, but it didn't even compare to the Last Supper. I sat there in awe of this art work. It was so surreal to me -- it was like I had seen and heard about this painting all of my life and then bam! Here I am sitting withing 20 feet of it... It was crazy. It was an amazing experience and I'm so glad we did this! We've gotten pretty good at culturing ourselves.
After this we all split up and me and a few others went to this store that the design girls had visited earlier in the day on their tour with Massimo. It was called Thr Design Superstore and it was probably the coolest place ever. There were so many little knick-knacks that I wanted for my house but I didn't want to have to lug them back with me -- thank goodness for the Internet these days and I can order online!
When we got back to the hotel we were absolutely beat. We were having a tough time deciding dinner plans, so when another group of girls mentioned going back to the appertivo place we went on Tuesday, we jumped on that offer. So we headed back to this same place, got more fabulous, fruity drinks and got all the appertizers that we could fit on our little plates. I think we Americans abuse the appertivo...
The end of the night was the best and probably my favorite part of the trip. We have all been having problems with the Internet at the hotel so the girls that were trying to download The Bachelorette weren't successful. Well we decided it was a necessity to our sanity to watch this, and to make our time in Milan enjoyable, so we worked and worked and worked and it finally downloaded completely! So after appertivo we all changed into our pajamas, piled into one room and had one big showing of Ali's latest journey finding love. It was hysterical having all of us in that one room together -- I wish I could have recorded all of the comments that were made throughout the show! So the night ended on a good note with the reality TV showing.
I told you I was going to have a final verdict and here it is:
Milan verdict -- I can live happily without revisiting. It's a nay in SK's book. Sorry for the brutal honesty, but I just wasn't a big fan. But please don't let this skew anyone else's personal view of Milan, this is just my own opinion based on my short 3 days in this Italian city!
So, been there and done that -- onto Prague!!
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I have my final verdict on Milan. But I've decided to make you wait until the end of the post to find out.
I want this to be the Most. Dramatic. Verdict. Ever. (Copyright Chris Harrison)
So, to start things off light I will tell you what we did today on our last day in Milan. This morning at 10 the group split into two, one group of fashion students and one group of interior design students (and the girls that were neither could chose which group to go with). The design group spent the day with Massimo seeing design stores and artsy stuff, while the fashion group was toured around my Massimo's assistant, Valentina.
Our group of eight (the design group got all the other girls except for two... we didn't get offended) took the Metro to meet Valentina. First impression -- she's precious, let me be her! Not to mention she set us up with some pretty cool tours, so she's good at what she does.
Our first tour was a bit of fashion and a bit of design combined -- we visited the Moschino Hotel in Milan. When we walked through the glass doors, I knew we were in for a show. The entire room was decorated so immaculately and so chic! There were dress forms as floor lamps and fancy oragami hanging from the ceiling. I only got a few pictures before I was promptly told that they weren't allowed!
(picturreeess)
Valentina greeted a tall Italian man, and this ended up being our guide for the hotel. He told us that the hotel has only been open since March and that each of it's rooms have a special theme to them. This made us curious, so we headed up the stairs to see what he was talking about. Only pictures can do them justice, and since we couldn't take pictures, Valentina is emailing us photos. So I'll add them as soon as I get them -- you'll be in awe!
Behind the first door was the "Bee Room". It had one giant Bee formed from metal "z" letters and the rest was all pristine white.
Then there was the "Red Dress Room". The headboard of the bed was a red velvet dress and this theme flowed onto the bedspread (kind of hard to explain).
And there was the "cloud room", which was all white with white accent furniture.
And there was the "gold room" -- my favorite! I wanted to take everything and bring it back home with me.
I promise, it is 100x cooler than it sounds -- I'm watering it down!
After the hotel, Valentina led us to this store called 10 Corso Como, and it is where you go in Milan if you want to see what's in style. They have major designer's clothing, like Balenciaga and Prada, and couture footwear -- it was all the type of merchandise that I dream of and never think I'd be in the presence of. They also carried accessories and books... It was amazing! And it also had a major design element to it because it was in a renovated garage and it had all of this fabulous decor decorating the store. The design girls would have flipped!
These two stops took up our alotted time with Valentina, so we had to get back on the Metro to go to the hotel after Corso Como. We all didn't have anything for the afternoon planned except for a 4:45 viewing of the Last Suppper. So a group of us went to lunch at this random restaurant we walked in -- lucky choice! Lucky because the people were so nice and so accomodating to us and because they had one of my favorite meals I've discovered since Gaudi's Pizzeria -- a calzone with mozzarella, ham and ricotta cheese. Yum! Of course I order it, and it's fabulous again! Just like I remembered.
After lunch Anna, Kasi and I went back to a store we'd visited yesterday, and then met the rest of the group at 4:20. The Program didn't schedule us a visit to see the Leonardo's Last Supper painting, so we took it upon ourselves to buy tickets and go see it while in Milan. We all met up and waited together until it was our turn to see the painting.
When the doors opened and we entered this big, white walled room, the only thing of focus was the Last Supper painting -- I liked that. It got all the attention. And it took up one whole side of the wall. There was another painting of the Crucifixion on the opposite end that had been done by Leonardo's student, but it didn't even compare to the Last Supper. I sat there in awe of this art work. It was so surreal to me -- it was like I had seen and heard about this painting all of my life and then bam! Here I am sitting withing 20 feet of it... It was crazy. It was an amazing experience and I'm so glad we did this! We've gotten pretty good at culturing ourselves.
After this we all split up and me and a few others went to this store that the design girls had visited earlier in the day on their tour with Massimo. It was called Thr Design Superstore and it was probably the coolest place ever. There were so many little knick-knacks that I wanted for my house but I didn't want to have to lug them back with me -- thank goodness for the Internet these days and I can order online!
When we got back to the hotel we were absolutely beat. We were having a tough time deciding dinner plans, so when another group of girls mentioned going back to the appertivo place we went on Tuesday, we jumped on that offer. So we headed back to this same place, got more fabulous, fruity drinks and got all the appertizers that we could fit on our little plates. I think we Americans abuse the appertivo...
The end of the night was the best and probably my favorite part of the trip. We have all been having problems with the Internet at the hotel so the girls that were trying to download The Bachelorette weren't successful. Well we decided it was a necessity to our sanity to watch this, and to make our time in Milan enjoyable, so we worked and worked and worked and it finally downloaded completely! So after appertivo we all changed into our pajamas, piled into one room and had one big showing of Ali's latest journey finding love. It was hysterical having all of us in that one room together -- I wish I could have recorded all of the comments that were made throughout the show! So the night ended on a good note with the reality TV showing.
I told you I was going to have a final verdict and here it is:
Milan verdict -- I can live happily without revisiting. It's a nay in SK's book. Sorry for the brutal honesty, but I just wasn't a big fan. But please don't let this skew anyone else's personal view of Milan, this is just my own opinion based on my short 3 days in this Italian city!
So, been there and done that -- onto Prague!!
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Labels: My Summer Abroad
posted by Sara Kate at
3:03 AM
2 Comments:
Not surprised by the final verdict, although it sounds like yall had a really good last day. The Last Supper viewing sounds really great, glad you took the time to do that. Keep it up, you're in the home stretch now.
Lets see... A pick pocket episode, viewing of Da Vinci's most stunning work or Frank crying on the Bachelor...I know my pick!!!
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