We hadn't been going to, but neither of us could quite bear to be so close and not at least have a quick look at Milan. Plus Citymapper told us there was a bus from the airport (fortunately closed for 3 months for runway repairs) straight to the Duomo, so it would have been rude not to, really.
So off we went. It's always difficult to tell what a city is like from a bus, if you don't know it at all, especially when said bus goes up one very long street (it felt like) lined with shops and apartments. And up the tram lines.
But we got to the terminus eventually, about 5 minutes walk from the Duomo itself
and from the iconic plaza Vittore Emanuele II.
We didn't go into the Duomo as you had to pay, but we did walk through the plaza,
and then out and round and so back to the bus stop.
A quick cup of coffee when we got back to the van, and we were away at last 5 minutes earlier than we had been the previous day!
We had been going to spend the night on the outskirts of Florence, but decided we would see more, more enjoyably, if we went to Pisa instead. So we did, driving on the motorway (€27 today) stopping at a services for lunch, and getting rained on as we crossed the mountains.
We have found a camp site about 20 minutes' walk from the Tower (which we saw in the distance as we drove in) and the SW has gone for a run so we can be out betimes for an explore tomorrow morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment