A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Museum



See the yellow ovals?  3 different streets

Thursday, July 21   
 
This morning we planned our remaining time in Milan--a visit to the Brera Museum today and a trip to the Monumental Cemetery on Friday, with a bus tour to Lake Como on Saturday. (See what you have to look forward to?)

on a map, Giovanni may be there...

I told Mary that today we needed to walk around the arena and shoot off down the street. She liked that idea so we walked along the outside edge of the park toward the arena (because of the shade), and at the curve of the arena we did indeed shoot off down the street. But the name of the street on the map didn't match the actual street name. No worry, street names change each block and we knew we had to bear right. However, the further right we bore, the less any street names matched. And then the street names started appearing in Italian AND Chinese. Mary thought I led her to Shanghi downtown.

We finally found a street name that matched the map--and it was nowhere near the museum, but luckily only about four blocks from the cemetery, which rates rave reviews from the guide book, so we went along and gawked and took photos. All nationalities names are on the graves and niches where ashes are placed.

(According the the guides, you know you've arrived in Milan when you are famous enough and rich enough to buy a plot (at roughly $200,000). )




We sat and talked about all of the people who ruled Milan over the years making it a metropolitan city - until the caretaker indicated that he had to lock up for lunch/siesta.

matching graves from same family

note a ladder,water can & fountain so flowers can be maintained.
 like the US most flowers are artificial,
but there is a flower shop just outside the gate

WWII era next to Jewish graves 

Family vaults

His date was WWII, hers 20 years after

So then, what was Mary's problem?

We ate an excellent lunch at 聚賓餐廳 (Ristorante Jubin) in Chinatown --chicken cashew and pork meatballs. They had an extensive menu of Chinese, Thai, and Japanese dishes. In fact, the menu looked the size and shape of my high school annual--complete with pictures.

Lack of peas.

And on our otherwise uneventful walk back to the hotel we stopped for gelato--a real find at 5++ for the mixed berry, the double chocolate, the peach, and the regular chocolate. The berry and the peach were especially fresh-fruit tasting. Sorry, no gelato picture; it was so hot, we had to eat it quickly so it didn't melt.

In fact, it was so good we waited until 6 and walked the seven blocks back to Freddogelato for more before supper. Besides we needed to take a photo for you. Passed a grocer with such a tempting display of fresh fruit that we bought a few blackberries to eat in the room. Then walked past the ultimate breadbasket.

I don't think we will get so creative.

Segue:  Tommy they did not let us get on the Segway tour.