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| Laura "Lew" |
The first weekend in November Lew came to Milano!! I’ve
known Laura for many, many years and I call her Lew (for her last name Lewandowski). We’ve been friends at least since Junior High
and we were about 12 or 13 years old. We used to
figure skate together, and then we were in cheerleading together; we even sang
and danced in show choir junior and senior years of high school. Needless to
say, we go back a long time! She is one of my very best friends, so it was
great to see her again and show her where we have been living this year.
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| Bergamo |
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| Old city gates of Bergamo |
While she was here we toured downtown Milan on the day she
arrived, took some time the next day to go out to Bergamo (about an hour east
of Milan), went shopping down in Serravalle (designer outlets near Genova), and
partied like rock stars on her final night. It was a really fun weekend that
ended with a bang!
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| the city center |
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| a little gelato- it was amazing!! |
Bergamo was really easy to get to from Milan- we took a
train from the central train station (about 5 or 6 euros one way), and then we
caught a bus from the train station in Bergamo to go to the old town (Bergamo
Alto). It was a really hazy day with lots of fog, so it was difficult to see
anything on the train ride out there, but it added a mystique to everything. Bergamo
is a beautiful city at the base of the Alps and on a clear day it would be an
awesome setting! We grabbed lunch, walked around to take in everything, bought
a cake for Josh, and enjoyed exploring the old military artillery they had on
display.
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| on a clear day you would see the Alps in the distance |
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| some of the artillery we found |
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the park outside of the old military fortress,
that's where we found the artillery |
That night we grabbed some Pizzeria Spontini pizza with Josh
and I think Laura liked it! She got to meet the Pizza Nazi and experience our
favorite spot. She never did mention if it was the best pizza she has ever had
though… I have a new experiment going- every time someone visits us I want to
take them to Spontini to see if it’s the best pizza they have ever had. Almost
each visitor has said that, so I want to see how many people say it’s the best
ever.
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| fall colors in Bergamo |
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| drinks with Josh after Spontini |
On Friday we went shopping at the designer outlets at
Serravalle. It was a wet and rainy day, but we weren’t going to let that get in
our way of some great shopping! Well… it turned out that some disastrous storms
rolled through that same day. Literally. At least six people died in Genova
that day because of flooding, and that was only about 60 kilometers away from
where we were shopping.
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| flooding in Genova that day |
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| courtesy of Peoples Daily Online |
The final day that Laura was here we did some more shopping
and walked around Milan. It was a lazy day for us; we slept in and enjoyed a
nice nap in the afternoon. We needed to save our energy because that night we
hit the town and experience the night life of Hollywood in Corso Como (a famous club in Milan that stays open until 6AM). This may
not have been the smartest idea because Laura had to catch a flight out of
Malpensa around 10:30AM the next morning. The airport is about an hour from our
house (if you time the trains right), so she needed to be on the road pretty
early. Well, we ended up staying out until 3:30-4AM… Needless to say, we slept
right through her flight! I woke up at 10:45 and realized she had missed it! We
scrambled and got her to the airport in time for the next flight at 1PM, but
she had to purchase a whole new ticket!! I felt so awful! Now she can
officially say that she missed a flight because of staying out too late (which
is partially my fault). Talk about ending the weekend with a bang! But it was
so great to have her visit Milan and hopefully she won’t have second thoughts
about visiting again. It turned out to be a more expensive weekend than she
expected!
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