Day 33 – Milan – Italy 2019

A day in Milan.

We have a 9.30 am visit to see Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the last supper. So we depart early – tickets to be picked up 20 minutes prior.

Ah, another one of those ticket experiences where a few signs might help or where customer service could be a bit more customer focused.

We are looking for huge queues – so when you don’t see huge queues you start to think you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

All becomes clear after our tour – tours are limited to 30 people every 15 minutes – so no crowds – climate of the room where painting is strictly controlled.

Painting is a fresco painted on the end wall of a large room. The large room destroyed by a bomb in WW2. Amazing that painting survived. We are told by our guide, that normally when a painting is painted on a plaster wall that paint and plaster are applied at the same time. This didn’t happen in this instance. Painting was applied to a finished plaster wall. Painting suffering over the ages of time and many restorations. Still very impressive.

We head to the fancy mall in Milan – knowing that we probably can’t afford even the Gelati. Very high end mall, all the fashion names, with fancy shop windows. A procession of tourists file through the malll – from one end to the other – continuous – not really stopping to buy – it is all about the shop presence….. and no we did not buy a gelati.

A bit more wandering, a lot more sitting. We relax for our daily dose of Gelati.

Out for dinner – close to home – we sample the Crema Catalana.