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Milano

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...