I woke up and met Pett at the reception at 10. We decided to go to the supermarket and get some stuff for breakfast. We had a breakfast of champions, and decided what we were going to do. We thought we would be sensible and get our reservations for the train tomorrow to Florence, so headed for central station. We also wanted to go to the duomo, so had to dress conservatively wearing jeans and t shirt in the boiling heat. More on this later.
After waiting in a queue for a while, we finally got some seats reserved and got on our way to the duomo. No queue here! Which was strange because when I passed yesterday the place was heaving. No complaints though, we fired in and had a wander about the church. After looking about for a while, we found the ticket machine for getting up to the roof in the lift. It also included entry into two of the bits of the duomo which were restricted, so we had a look about them first.
The first bit was an archaeological dig underneath the square in front of the duomo, which had uncovered an old baptissery which had been built over. It was pretty cool, but quite small so after wandering about for a wee bit we went to check out site number two. This one was the treasury, which just had some gold crosses etc in it. It was garbage. That was a total waste of time, so we headed for the elevator to get to the roof.
The views from the roof were stunning, and seeing the spires up close shows how much work must have gone into this building. Anyone who knows me well knows that I'm not at all fond of heights (a bit of an understatement), and by the time we got right up to the top after walking up some stairs I was shitting myself. It wasn't flat to walk on either as it was the slanted sides of the roof, which made it even worse. After a bit of walking around I couldn't take much more so we headed back down.
We had a drink in the duomo square again, then headed for the San Siro! We jumped on the metro to the closest station, which didn't seem that far away on the map. I'm not sure if it was the heat, but it took ages to walk to the stadium. And speaking of the heat, the jeans situation was now starting to deteriorate. I had some chafe occurring at the top of my thigh, and it was now impairing my walking skills. There was some pretty funny graffiti along the Walls on the way to the stadium though, and the Inter Rude Boy slogan kept appearing all over the place, quality banter!
We eventually made it to the stadium, and started the tour. Wow this stadium is impressive. The dressing rooms were quite funny, as they had been decorated in the style of their respective owners. The inter one was quite bare, just benches and all about team unity. Then we saw the AC Milan one, which was all flat screens and comfy seats, built in the image of top shagger Silvio Berlusconi!
After the tour we took in the museum and the shop, which were both pretty rubbish. It was getting towards tea time so we decided to head back to the hostel. The chafe was now horrific. I could feel my jeans tearing into my leg. This was not good. It seemed to take hours to walk back to the metro stop. When we eventually got there the seat on the train was like heaven.
It took us a wee while on the metro to get home, and we stopped off at the supermarket to get some supplies for tea as we would not be going out again that night, due to the chafe and tiredness. We sat in the hostel eating and chatting the night away, and retired for an early-ish night to get up for the train tomorrow morning. When I got back to the room however, I ended up chatting to a couple of English boys sharing my dorm, who decided to disagree with everything I said about Milan. Douchebags. I ended up just ignoring them and going to sleep, Florence tomorrow!
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