Sylvia's Scenario

We have been in Italy for five days now and my diet has not had a lot of variety in it. Basically, it’s been pizza pasta spaghetti and gelato. My Italian Four Food Groups. I can’t get enough of these four foods right now. I’m sure I will be expanding my horizons eventually but I’m in no hurry, at this point. It started in Milano when Bruce brought back a pizza after we first got to our hotel at 10:00pm. After a day of traveling from Copenhagen to Milano, I just wanted to take a shower and go to bed but to my surprise, that pizza was incredible. Oh my! And that was just the beginning. The pizza here is not filling because the crust is very thin with not a lot of stuff piled on. It seems even less filling than a sandwich so for lunch we’ve been ordering a pizza everyday and splitting it. This seems to be working just fine for us since our dinners have been more on the heavier side with either pasta or spaghetti. Then comes de...

We have made a complete 360 degree turn from Copenhagen to Milano, Italy.  Within our first half day, we'd already seen a mozzerati parked outside our restaurant and and ferrari outside the dealership.  Bruce is in awe of this town. He's already visited the Mercedes store. Milano is Italy's fashion, industrial, banking, TV, publishing, and convention capital.  For every church in Rome, there is a bank in Milano.  Our hotel is two blocks from the Galleria, where the rich of the rich shop, known as Italy's Rodeo Drive...only bigger.  Actually, big is not a good word to describe anything around here.  More like gigantic or Bruce uses the word sequoia-size.  Everything is simply massive. We only have one day here so we took a 3-1/2 hour tour to get in the highlights.  We're both now information overloaded. The Galleria is a four-story glass-doomed arcade and is the symbol of Milano.  It is made of iron and gla...