Vacanze a Milano 2006 (part 2)

This is the situation we left post 1. Its already 7PM, and we go for these aperitivi and drinks for which we have drived to Milan.

After we have some beers and pasta in Via Brera (I think), we decide to look for an apparently good place to have another drink. A trendy hotel that Ignacio's girlfriend has recommended. In our way there we walk in front of "LaScala" again and we start surrounding the V.Emanuelle gallery in search of the objective. Bad luck. Or we are lost or we are less skilled to find a place with the help of a map than the teenager in post 1 was with the camera. We ask policemen, waiters, hotel receptionists, normal citizens and not so normal......Nothing. Ok maybe we should better give up and go to the hotel to have some sleep and get ready for the night. No way. I swear we find this XXXXX hotel. And at the end....We found it! the only problem is that it was closed for holidays. Nice, very nice!

After sleeping a bit we went to a delicious restaurant and then to have some drinks. I will never complain again about the quantity of gin in the gin-Tonics served in England or Switzerland while saying how in Spain you can heve a decent gin-tonic. No, from now on I will complain by giving the example of how in Milan you can drink a proper and maybe too proper gin-tonic, especially if you go to a bar in Corso Como the name of it I don´t remember (About the bar I only remember the gin-tonic and the waitress)

Sunday: Wake up, breakfast, and drive to Lugano. Sunny day again. (wow I can´t believe this). Lugano looks a good place to eat in a terrace while enjoying the view and looking at the Porsches and some Ferraris you can see there every minute.

In Lugano we have had a very long lunch, due to the fact that apparently there was a fight between some members of the family-owners in the kitchen (At least this is what a waiter who looked some kind of man who tames Lions in a circus or whatever you call this profession in english told us). We are more of the opinion that the "family argue" affected the memory of the past waiter and we have been absolutely forgotten, ah! and now we can only order spagghetti. No problem, we are in Lugano, enjoying the view and the sunday. One more beer please.

And after Lugano it was time to come back to Basel. Once we cross a couple of tunnels, we enter again in the microclima of the Basel canton, and the fabulous August rain and clouds are here again. I was already missing them after one day and a half. Paco has invented a sentence that he now uses everytime: "Nada mas falso que un verano en suiza"

Well, at least I can take some curious pics from the car.

Music for the trip to Milan: Nina Simone - Sinnerman