PHOTOS OF MILAN AND NIZA

FIRST TOUR BY EUROPE LAST PART: COTE D'AZUR AND COME BACK

18TH AUGUST 2007

After to have a good breakfast we go to France, to the Cote d'Azur. We put Monaco in our GPS and start the trip. During all the travel we pass under a lot of tunnels and uncountable tolls. I don't want to think how much we spent in that, but I think that it was too much. We arrive to Monaco, but we can't park the car in any place, so we decide to see the city from the car. It's a pity but it's close to Barcelona and I'm sure that we can see it another time. Then we go to Niza. We park in a parking near of the centre like the Barcelona ones (3 € by hour. Espensive but not as Milan ones). We walk along the pedestrian area, full of shops, restaurants, ice-cream parlors and bars. We find a quick!! so we eat a Long Bacon hamburguer, our favourite.

Then we walk along the seafront, full of hotels and people in the beach. Today it's a sunny and beautiful day but we can't have a batch because we don't have any bathdress. It's the last time that this happens to us. The next time, we'll take the bathdress althoug we travel to  the Pole. The beaches are very narrow and with a lot of pebble. I think that is not very comfortable to be knocked down there, but the sea has a breathtaking blue colour. After we eat an ice-cream and take de car. We have to look for a hotel. We don't want to have it in Niza because we know is expensive, maybe in another place not very touristic.

We stop in every town, village and city we see but all it's full. It becames night slowly and we are tired and we start to be nervous. In addition, the car begins expressing a sickening smell and when Javi opens the hood discovers that the battery has got damaged. Greate!! The best way to finish our holidays! We ask in another hotel we see and the receptionist tell me that there isn't any free hotel in the whole french cost. That until La Jonquera, already Catalonia, we will not find any. So, we decide to comeback home this night. We arrive at home at 03:00 in the morning, very tired and very sad because of the end of our holidays. But also happy to be at home with our families again and of have fulfilled a big sleep.

CONCLUSION:


Trip budget: 2.600 € total. To cover half Europe visiting places so fantastic like Paris, Brugges, Amsterdam or Berlin, for example, it costs a thing.



This was our first tour and we will remember it for ever with a very special love. If I have to choose the places that I liked the most, I'd choose Paris, Amsterdam and, of course Brugges, and the places I liked the less Luxembourg and Milan, but really all the places liked me a lot. Louxemburg has a lot of places more beautifuls and interestings than the capital.  Maybe we come back one day and we will can discover another things. Brugge is like to be inside of a fary tale and I dreamed a lot of times to be there thar I could'nt believe it.



Berlin was very impressive to me, althoug the Wall is still very present and has some things of the war, so I perceived it a little sad, but only a few because it's really a very nice city to stay. Munich, on the opposite, meant a happiness explosion, I don't know exactly why, althoug the visit in Dachau was very hard for us. I don't think that I will visit again another concentrarion camp, for me is enough.

Also I would like to have some touch with the people who lives in these cities, but in a capital withour knowing any person is impossible.

FIRST TOUR BY EUROPE PART VIII: MILAN

MILAN

Milan is the city of the fashion, not only in Italy, but all around the world. It's a nice city, maybe with not a lot of things to see, but with a very exciting night life: pubs, restaurants, discoteques,... Also is a very cultural city. I liked, but it was not the city that I liked the most of the trip. I've got to say that it had a very strong competence, and after seeing Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brugges, for example, Milan it seems not the best, but it's very interesting too.

WHAT YOU CAN'T MISS IF YOU GO TO MILAN

- The Duomo (it's the cathedral of the city and one of the most famous in the world) and its square

- The Victor Manuel Gallery. Just in front of the Duomo, it's a gallery with a lot of fashionable shops.

- Theatre La Scala  

 

- Church Santa Maria de la Gracia, where it's exhibited the great picture of the master Leonardo Da Vinci called "The last Dinner"

- The aquarium

- The Brera Pinacothec

- Sforza Castle

- The Leonardo Da Vinci Museum

- To the lovers of football: San Siro Stadium, the stadium of AC Milan and Inter of Milan.

17TH AUGUST 2007


Our last stop in this tripp will be Milan. We decided it the last night in Munich. We had to start our come back to home, and we thought that Milan could be a very good end. We are already a little tired and we have choosen a city with not very much things to see. Anyway, sure we'll come back some day and we will see the things we didn't see the last time.





To arrive to Milan, we must go across Austria and buy the "vignet", a sticker you have to give in the windshield of the car. Here there are not tolls but exist this thing and you must have it, if not, they fine you. We only need it for some hours, but the smallest is for a week, so we buy this one. We buy it in an oil station in the nearest of Innsbruck. It's cloudy and we have 12º, another sudden change of temperature, but we are neare of the Alpes and we note it, because the landscape we see is very nice. When we enter into Italy, we discover how expensive is to drive by there. There are a lot of tolls, and we were complaining about Catalonia!! I think here is worse. Here, the temperature goes up and in a few hours, we have more than 30º and very hot. We arrive to Milan about 14:00. We find a room in the Novotel and installed ourselves. We eat something of our little refrigerator. We fall sleep in the bed with the air conditioned conected. At 5 o'clock sounds the alarm and we prepare to know the city.

We look for a parking to park the car, but they are so expensive: 5 € per hour. We try to find a place in the street and in the end, we find a place in the load area whose schedule is on the point of finishing. We walk towards the Duomo Square, where it's located the Milan Cathedral. This time we don't have any guidbook neither, because we decided to come here last night. The cathedral is very nice and big, just as we imagined when we have seen in TV a lot of times. It's full of scaffolds, it is in works, so the photos are not very nicely but well... We must pay to enter, but we don't want to pay. Now I don't remember how much is it, but it's no cheap. We see only the outsides. We walk along the square with a lot of people and souvenirs shops, and then we see the Victor Manuell Galeries, very luxurious and full of glamur shops like Gucci, etc.

We go out by the back entrance and we see a square with a Leonardo da Vinci sculpture and a kiosk with a lot of postarcards and guidebooks. I buy one, and despite it's the same as the Munich one, this hasn't an itinerary with the most importants points to see in the city and the down town. Only talks about the most important attractions in Milan. It's becoming late and we can't enter already in the museums and the castle because are closed. We walk along the city pacely and we decide to see these things the next time we come to the city.

We want to see San Siro, the stadium that is shared for AC Milan and Inter of Milan. We look for it in our GPS. We try to park near of the stadium but it's very difficult because it's crowded of cars. Maybe today there is a match. We walk towards the stadium with a lot of souvenirs stands with things of both teams and places to eat something like frankfurts, sandwitches and snacks. Javi buys the both scarfs for him collection and a t-shirt. We find out that the match is between Juventus and Milan. A man offer two tickets by 20 € each one. I think it's worth it and it's a good match to see, but Javi is not sure because maybe we have not a good place, so we refuse them. We buy a good sandwich and eat it while we see the people in the street. It becomes night and we come back to the hotel. It's our last night of the holidays, snif snif....

PHOTOS OF MUNICH