The City of Fashion

Today we were touring Milano, the city where fashion comes to life, unless of course you are backpacking, then once again you are stuck wearing the same clothing over and over! Oh well, after t months of wearing the same stuff you don't know that you are wearing the wrong stuff!
Today is Saturday, well the day we did the tour was on Saturday and today is well Tuesday, I have been a little behind schedule on posting this blog, oh well. So we did a walking tour of Milan and we were in luck in that we were the only ones who were on this tour so we had our own personal tour which is great because then we can ask questions and get answers to them. The weather was not very nice to do any tours since it was sooooo cold, but we did it anyway. We walked over to where the La Scala opera house and when you look at it from the outside it is bland, but going inside you are in awe! I have never seen such a fantastic looking opera house, however I have to admit that I have not been in a lot! Maybe 2 or 3 of them, however it was magnificent! We were not allowed to take pictures inside so I will not post any! Across from the house there is a great big statue of a famous Italian and I will let you guess who that is!
After that we went to the plaza where there is a tile in the floor where you must rotate you foot 3 times for luck, here is a pic of Jane doing that. Across from that point is a seven star hotel where they feed you and take good care of you, we were not staying there!!
Once we walked through this wonderful plaza we went into the Dumo and what a Dumo, church, it is covered in fantastic marble and has some 200 statues on top. Inside was pretty interesting but once you have been in about 10 churches they all seem the same, except in this one had two unique things that we saw. The first one is that the ceiling was painted to look like it was carved, we could not take a picture of it since it was too dark in there. The second was a statue of St. Bartholomew which showed him flayed! It was kind of gross but it was neat.
After the chuch visit we went for lunch and it was out of this world! We have not had a meal like that since we left France. I had pasta which was very mouth watering and the wine was too die for.
With full tummies we ascended the Dumo to the top via elevator, since we had the tour we received tickets for the elevator so that was nice. Once we got to the top, we were surprised to see that we didn't have to go into another staircase and go to the top, however we were able to walk around the roof of the church which was awesome.
Tomorrow we head off to cinque terre.