So... Best advice I heard for Milan was from an awesome friend, Laura, we met.. She called a guy friend to ask the first thing she should do in Milan.. And got "catch the first train to Rome".. I agree..and so does everyone else we've talked to. Let me give a play by play (what I can recall) of night one.
Got in from Venice at 9, had directions from the hostel...but we couldn't find the apparent obvious bus station... Maybe because there wasn't one, they are trams..like San fran style with the wires lining the street. Anyways, we are supposed to "get on 92 and go 10 stops" so we see 92 and there goes court running literally diagonal across the street to stop it..so we count...and we get off ten stops later..and it's getting dark and we do not see the street we are supposed to see. We realize we are lost so try to call the hostel. Well, the guy speaks terrible English, go figure (everywhere we have been they speak amazing English.. You almost have to in order to run a hostel). Anyways, 4 minutes and a lot of talk money later all we get is "return to train and get on 92" .... Well we see 92 coming the other way (good to know it runs both ways) and luckily when we say where we need to be the guy says ya ya.. And we ask to tell him to let us know when to hop off...
Also, this is after we stood around, walked around and got circled by a creepy guy in the ghetto of Milan. So... We finally find it 2 hours later. And we have been told free wifi, kitchen to cook in (we had a whole plan to make pasta) and breakfast... Well, we arrive and try to pay..the credit card machine was broken and they had no change. What hostel doesn't have money?! So we end up getting some change from some guys sitting there and head to the room. At this point we head to the front to find out the wifi is broken... So I just want a hot shower and bed (I haven't showered in two and a half days).. So I go, and it's ICE cold. So I rush to get a little clean, and then fins out the water heater is broken but it would be fixed in 10 minutes. Again, go figure.
So we go to sleep hoping to start fresh. And again, no wifi, but we ask about the kitchen...oh ya, broken too.
So we just go to a coffee bar and get wifi for ordering a cappuccino and plan our day. Well, the buses are very confusing but we find our way down to the only church, it was pretty, but that's about all there was. Best thing we found was a huge bookstore with 3.50 English books. I got "sons and lovers" and am excited to actually have a free reading book. Then the adventure to see San Siro (the big soccer stadium AC and Inter Milan play at).. We are told bus 199.. And we see it on all the maps.. Well an hour later we give up waiting and court leaves to go check out a park and I walk/jog 2 miles to see this... It's huge..and I really wanted to get onside...but again, just our Milan luck, there was a huge "vasco" concert and the stadium was closed... I know, I was annoyed too.
We got lucky and found abertivo for 5 euro at that bar across the street (it's basically a cocktail and buffet) so that was sweet, and we got wifi for an hour.
Basically I'm tired of complaining about Milan...but it's money (ups trucks are Mercedes) and fashion...and no tourism... Also, the toilets were very weird..you have to turn it on and let it go till everything is flushed and then you have to shut it off.
But, we left this morning (my favorite part) and our new friend Laura joined us.
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