Today
didn’t get off to the best start. We
planned to be at the L’Ultima Cena where Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”
is displayed. We didn’t have tickets and
the only way to get in is to turn up and hope for a cancellation. Unfortunately we didn’t plan for the morning
commuter traffic into the city and spent over 1 ½ hours in the car, we then
also missed the walking tour that started at 10.30am, lucky we have seen the
other “Last Supper” at the Louvre in Paris .
Changing our plans we then decided to take a 1920’s tram around Milan,
however Leo had fallen asleep and the buggy didn’t fit between the bars on the
tram. By now were hitting lunch and not
seen anything new. Getting out the trip
advisor app we made our way to the Brera Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca di
Brera). This was a University museum so
you got to see how paintings are restored and kept. We saw the most reproduced painting in Italy
the ‘Hayez’ (The Kiss) and a selection of paintings from Raphael, Caravaggio
and a bunch of other Italian painters.
Taylor had received a facebook message this morning from a girl she went
to Bethlehem College with, to say she was living in Milan! So at 3.30pm Taylor met her back at the
cathedral. Crazy that Taylor managed to
catch up with an old primary school friend on the other side of the world. Taylor was shocked to learn that Italians go
to school on a Saturday! Ended up being a
good day even though it got off to a rocky start :+)
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