We woke up at 0415hrs and said our goodbyes to Venice. We took the train at 0512hrs to Milano Lambrate (0841hrs). Each ticket costs E12.34. We bought a new pair of gloves (E4) for Dac from one of the street vendors at Lambrate. We changed to Metro (Line 2 towards Famagosta/Abbiategrasso) from Lambrate to get to Milano Centrale. We bought the Milan Metro day pass at E3 each. By doing this, we saved E20 on train tickets.
When we reached Milano Centrale, we left our backpacks at the bad depository for E3.80 for the 1st 5 hours. We took the Metro to Lotto station and changed to a bus to get to San Siro Stadium (Home ground for AC Milan and Inter Milan). We bought 2 collar pins from the two teams and a scarf. We also took pictures in the club store and spent quite some time there browsing through the stuff.
We backtracked to Lotto station and took the metro to Duomo station. We made our way to Piazza del Duomo. We then went into Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II to look for the bull’s testicles. We had a hard time looking for the bull’s testicles as we thought that we should be looking for a bull’s statue. We did not realize that the bull was on the floor instead. It was said that by rubbing the shoe’s soles across the bull’s testicles would bring good luck. A local stopped to teach us the right way to rub the testicles. We are suppose to place our soles (heel) on the testicles and turn a circle. We also saw the statue of Leonardo da Vinci.
We walked into Gucci and spotted a money clip wallet (E200) which was pretty nice. But nothing in this Gucci shop caught my eye. We proceeded to the biggest Gucci store (4 levels) in the world at Golden Quad. I saw a wallet (E220) that I liked but they did not have stock for Dac’s money clip wallet. We need to spend E300 to get tax refund. We walked back to the first Gucci store that we visited to try our luck. We were LUCKY. They have both items and we bought both of them. I love the wallet. Dac love his too. The wallet was a early birthday gift for Dac.
We took the metro back to Centrale Station. We collected our backpacks at the bag depository (E10) and took the train at 1910hrs to Tirano (2148hrs) (border town of Italy and Switzerland). Each ticket costs E8.35. We sat on the left side of the train for better views.
It was dark when we reached Tirano. We walked for about 1km to reach our hotel, St Michele (SF32). It was a small and cosy hotel owned by a family. We wanted to eat dinner at the hotel’s café but they had stopped serving dinner by the time we came down. We took a walk outside the hotel and went back to eat instant noodles. We slept at 2300hrs.
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