After one day of touring outside of Milano, we spent the next full day wandering around the city itself. We visited the famous Milan cathedral and walked on its rooftop; fed the pigeons that were flocking everywhere outside the church; walked around the Galleria and enjoyed an aperitivo (cola for the kid) while people watching; and we checked out the science & technology museum which had a cool Leonardo DaVinci exhibit. The morning was peaceful and calm, but our day turned a little brutal in the afternoon. After the museum, we managed to get lost and have my phone die at the same time, so we spent over two hours wandering aimlessly to try and make it back to our hotel. My kid didn’t complain once! I did, haha. We were starving, sweating, and every leg muscle ached. Finding a taxi stand was next to impossible and we couldn’t get those little motorized scooters to work to help give us a boost. According to Google maps it was a 50 minute walk back to our hotel from the museum. We had already walked around the museum for 2.5 hours with no air conditioning. We were exhausted. Every restaurant we passed was closed or unbelievably expensive and not kid friendly. Talk about bad luck. I was hoping my phone would last until we got somewhere I recognized, but it didn’t, and in the end we eventually found a taxi (10 minutes from our hotel). I think more time was spent being lost than actually getting to enjoy the city. However, given all that, getting lost did lead to some pretty cool sights- like Bosco Verticale, residential towers with greenery. Everyone has seen photos of Milan and all its famous things, so I’m just going to add a few that I took of what I thought stood out. And just for fun, I turned them into black and white!

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