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staring at the wide space :P


so how should i start this, i have lots of things that i want to tell and i`m not sure how to synchronize everything. well, here goes nothing. my friends and i already planned to go visit italy months ago, like since october 2007. we bought flight tickets, booked hotel/rooms and already taken into account anything necessary. last winter holiday was a success with the trip. our journey started on 9th january 2007, precisely 12pm. all four of us took a bus to go to the dublin airport and thank god we bought rambler ticket so we were just charged 3.66euro instead of 7.70euro =). at the airport, as usual we checked in first and then waited for our flight at the stated terminal. eventhough the journey haven`t actually started yet, the girls already busy taking pictures while i was just sitting at the bench calmly, hehe.


before departure, took a snap :)


in the bus from airport to milan city center

our flight was at 3.55pm and scheduled to arrive in MILAN for about 2 and a half hour, surprisingly accurate. would definitely use ryan air again next time eventhough it`s a bit crowded =P we arrived in milan around 7.30pm (local time) from the airport we had to take a bus to the city center. my friend told me that we could simply walk to the hotel, but after we took a closer look at the map and the distance to the city center, we`ve known that it would take at least 2 days walk, hahaha. as we arrived in the city, we walked towards our hotel after asking the nearest passer by. sadly, most of italians could hardly speak english, so it was quite challenging to communicate with them. but look at the bright side, we had the opportunity to learn a few italian words! =D now that`s cool. it was quite confusing to find the hotel as it is quite hidden and using different name. once again we were confused as the owner said that our reservation were cancelled a month ago. luckily, the owner said he has two rooms empty, so we were saved then. personally the hotel was quite ok, despite having unlockable bathroom (the door just won`t lock). overall i would give 2 stars. that night, all of us were suffering from terrible hunger, and to make it worst there`s no convenient store nearby. we walked for a while and we saw something magical and of course.... delicious. it`s McD!! yes! we were saved again! each one of us took fish burger set and gluttony wrapped our humanity, hehehe. ansar took the honour to be the first person finishing the meal within a split second!



well... 6.20euro/approx RM30 for a fish fillet burger set?


after meal, we had a walk outside and saw some spectacular view. the huge rail station was beautifully decorated with neon bulbs and there were few christmas trees at the park in front of the station. due to less people around during night and increased mood after having dinner, we spent time taking pictures! and yeah we even took a picture with the police officers, hehehe. i`m sure they thought that we were nuts, hahaha.


took pic with polizia!! notice one of them turned back, hehe


nice view...


that night everyone headed to hotel with full satisfaction and full stomach of course, hehehe. the next day, we went out for a tour in milan city. first place we headed was duomo. it is a big church, artfully designated. the sight was awesome and somehow reminded me of disneyland castle =P



Duomo!


playing with birds in milan!


in the castle!! very spacy, nice to play skates :)


the best pic of four of us


i don`t know what`s the statue for, just luv taking pic! :)


then , we entered castello sforzesco. as it name sounds, yeah it is a castle. i`m sure it has lots of historical sense in here but we didn`t have much time to go through all of it, just taking lots of pics, hehehe. all in all, that`s all of milan cause the rest are mostly shopping center. milan is well known for its designer and collections. they have lots of expensive stuffs and clothings, probably will mostly suit for shopaholic with lots of money. =P



don`t mess with us!! grrr

before boarding the train

in the train, on the way to venice!!

as the night approached, we headed home with tired bodies. the next day, we had a decent breakfast of tuna sandwich made by us in order to save some money ;) . then, we checked out from the hotel and went out. before going to the train station, some of us done few shoppings as the opportunity might not come again. finally, we headed to our next destination by train which was VENICE!





to be continued~