Venice and Milan

Venice, day 2

walked a lot

changed hostels - new girls say "ecch"

candied oranges dipped in chocolate

pastries

 - puff (spumoni) - sugar, very good

 - torrone - nougat - dense, expensive, but really good

 - another pastry, powdered sugar, chocolate, also good

lunch

 - gnocchi (chewy larva), stewed meats, 2 baskets of bread.

 - cheap wine by the glass

boat adventure

Piazza San Marco

 - took some bread from lunch

 - fed to the pigeons

   - one landed on my shoulder, looked at me

   - little girl putting seeds in her brother's hair

      to get pigeons to land on his head

cafe, wrote this down

Venice, day 2, continued

how/why was Venice built?

SC has a cold headache

trash can on fire

beggar at the church - tricked SC

acoustics of cathedral

 - descriptions of "cathedral-like"

ate at fancy restaurant

 - Campari soda - as bad as it sounds

 - spaghetti marinara, w/ seafood.

   - okay but not stellar (not like St. Michael's Alley)

then came back and crashed. Talked to guy from Holland

 - dude first traveled alone @ 16, in U.S.

 - traveled through Eastern Europe: no tourism there

Problems w/ America as identified by people on my travels:

 - abortion

    - pastor (killing babies) and Irish guy (moral hazard)

 - 3 strikes policy (German kids) - cruel and unual

 - high cost of education at college level - Dutch guy

Milan

pigeons everywhere!

Mercedes ad, w/ the fish

Duomo - very tall; compare to blimp hangar?

 - find chronology of cathedrals vs. height

lots of walking, in circles; stupid map

 - food: rice & stuff, fried, looks like wou tou

design museum (Triennale)

 - but design museum was closed (too bad!)

 - materials exhibit was cool

   - translucent concrete

 - green buildings, but all in Italian (no English) so not so cool

   - Linked Hybrid (Pechino?, China). Li Hu, Pop. Science award

   - Manitoba Hydro Place; Winnepeg, Canada

   - ACROS, Fukuoka

   - KFW, Frankfurt

   - Barcelona central park, J. Nouvel

more of just a city, unlike Rome, Florence, Venice

 - could have been any city

missed out on Last Supper, daVinci stuff at Science & Technology

also missed out on the aquarium (one of the oldest in world)