What a whirlwind — I began this post this morning from 30,000-something feet on my way back from Italy already.
A few months back, I found a great deal to Milan, since this is their off-season. I’ve actively been trying to travel more, so I hopped right on it. $550 round trip to Italy?! Hell yeah. While I’m a vacation day hoarder and have about 30 vacation days chillin’ in my PTO balance, my friend Daria didn’t have quite as many and so we decided to go for a long weekend.
We took off Thursday night and landed Friday morning. I don’t usually do super well with jet lag and had already felt like I was running on empty from work, dealing with my mom, moving, etc, so I was nervous about landing and either spending all that money to just sleep in Italy or having a total breakdown. Luckily, neither happened.
Daria’s a little more familiar with Italy than me and also had a bit more time to plan things, so she had plenty of ideas about what we should do. OH OK.
I know people get bored reading long vacation recaps, but I did some fun stuff and took a lot of pics…so, sorry?
We grabbed some lunch and checked into the hotel and SHOWERED (best showers of our lives after traveling overnight) and headed for the Duomo. One of my coworkers had suggested getting up to the roof, so I lobbied for that.
We walked through the Galleria Vittorio (a gorgeous high-end shopping area) to get there, and oh, hello Versace.
Italy, why you gotta be so ugly?
No, but really…
Yeah, so, it didn’t really disappoint.
I chose not to lug my D-SLR, and this was the only part of the trip I regretted it for not being able to get really sharp, crisp photos.
Roarr…
Oh, and then we went to the Armani hotel and pretended like we were cool.
Did I really not take photos of dinner? We went to a place called Dry, and it was anything but. Italy, I like how you pour wine.
Have you ever been to Italy? Fave place? Or fave place in Europe?
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