Milano on a Monday

Well, I didn't really think about it ahead of time, but I've got one day in Milan, and it is a Monday. In Italia, generally, museums are shut on Mondays. Apparently there's some quite interesting places to go here - like a science museum with modern recreations of Da Vinci machines. Ok, so things I might find interesting, perhaps not other people.
The Cathedral is open, though. So I went in there, then paid to go up the top - that's kind of a standard theme in these Italian cities - go into the Cathedral (Duomo) and then pay to go up either the top of the dome or the bell tower (campanile). The Cathedral in Milan is an oddity because it doesn't have a belltower. Took a bunch of photos (a lot, seriously), though they, of course, would look much nicer on a better camera.

The good news: FREE INTERNET!!! I found a City-run place that has free internet for the purposes of e-mailing,job searching, education, etc. So ... I could spend my time here instead, but that would be kind of silly. Especially when it's so sunny outside.

Oh, in addition to having my one day in Milan on the closed-day, I'm also going to be travelling right before the game tonight starts (Italy Vs Netherlands). I might just be able to get to the hotel, check-in and find a bar in time, but it will be close.

Round round round, I get around

Since I have last wrote, I have been all around Rome, up to Florence, out to Pisa, and now I'm sitting in Bologna. I'm supposed to be getting out and going to see the museums before they all shut (at 1 or 3, depending), but I've got things that I need to sort out first and don't know when else I'm going to do it - like... find a place to stay in Milan, which is only 4 nights away. That's quite some time really, given that I only got a place here in Bologna yesterday morning, the day I was coming here.

I need to take the time at some point to write about things properly, but I don't spend much time on the computer at the moment [nor do I spend much in my bed; I'm pretty tired right now].

I've been looking at where I might go for the next couple of weeks, and I've discovered that I have many more places I want to go than I have days to go there, unless I spend just one night in each place. But I was doing that in South America and that can get pretty tiring, plus you don't really see the places properly.

I won't do a star rating, but I can give a better idea of if I liked a place or not - or even if I think it's worth a visit. However, that will have to be later, when I have more time.