Traveling on a budget takes a long time, but I finally got to Milan. I stumbled around the city for a bit, after a cab driver offered to drive me 1.5k (about a mile) for 20 euros ($24), I told him in a very polite way, "no way, Jose." I had a bit of time to kill before meeting my host, so I found a cool bakery and attempted to talk to an Italian guy who didn't speak English or Spanish, but we managed to have somewhat of a conversation. For the most part Italians were really cool and kind. After wandering around a supermarket for some more food, the manager demanded to search my backpack, after finding nothing he didn't apologize but simply said "ok." haha what a jerk! After that I met up with my host, he made me some schnitzel and some french fries and we grabbed a couple beers at a local pub. Probably the first good beer I'd had since coming to Europe, a German beer. The next day I met up with Meg, my Italian friend, to check out Milan. The coolest part was the Duomo, a Gothic style Cathedral that is the 4th largest church in the world and it has been under construction for over 500 years. It was pretty amazing. I got my first Italian pizza, some delicious Gelato and we were able to see the rest of the city that day.
The city has a lot of people trying to sell useless toys, or trying to con you into buying dinky bracelets for 20 euros. But besides all that it was pretty cool, a very modern city.
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