This City by the Bay: Milano Take 2

While we were waiting for Abby’s dad and brother to fly in we went into the Duomo. It took over 500 years to build and has over 5000 sculptures in and on it. It is astounding. Inside we saw bodies of cardinals older than our country. Kind of cool, but they were also really gross.

If you slid your feet along the floor instead of picking them up you could feel the differing levels of the marble floor. Some of the stones used in the construction of the floor are stronger than others and as such, some have worn away much more than others. It was really astounding for me to imagine the millions, maybe even billions, of people it took wandering through the church to wear away the marble like that.

I don't have any pictures of the interior of the church because you weren't allowed to take photos inside and I wasn't about to be one of the stupid tourists (like many we saw) who apparently couldn't read a sign written in multiple languages.

After the Duomo we went to aperotivo, which is essentially happy hour with a buffet and it originates from Milan. Some places serve chips and peanuts, others go all out. You order one drink, at a slightly more expensive price than normal for the bar and you get unlimited access to whatever food they are serving.

We found a really great bar on the water that went all out. They were serving multiple pasta dishes, rice dishes, bread, cheese, olives, vegetables and so on. Over the course of the hour or so we were there we saw them change out multiple dishes. There was no way we managed to try them all. By the time we picked up Abby’s dad and brother, Carl and Carl, we were so stuffed.

The next day we went back to the Duomo, we went inside again, but we also climbed the 265 steps to walked on the roof.