Milan Day 4

Today I got up and had a lazier morning than I have had. It was supposed to rain so I saved this one Vegan treat place that was close by for today in case it did, but it ended up being another gorgeous sunny but cold day. First I walked by the water tower turned art in 1990 to commemorate Italy hosting the soccer World Cup. Apparently the water turn was falling apart so it was update it or tear it down. This is right across from the hotel on the other side from our window.

Then the treat place had lots of delicious looking things. I got a chocolate mousse cake, a whipped cream and chocolate cake, 2 strawberry tarts, a red velvet mini piece, a tiramisu mini piece for Raymond (neither of us drink coffee, but I found out in Tuscany that he apparently likes tiramisu which is so odd!), 2 smash nut cookies and a larger cookie that kind of tasted kind of like a sandtart. We only are some of these and are saving the rest for this weekend, but what we tried was delicious! The past 2 days I have walked all morning so by the time I met Raymond for lunch I was ready to sit, but he had been sitting so day so wanted to walk so I relaxed more this morning and did my walking this afternoon instead. Much better plan!

After we ate lunch we wandered back through Chinatown as it is close to the Microsoft building and Raymond wanted to take a walk and found more mochi I could eat! These were lychee and sesame and they were both very intense flavors, but very good!

Then I walked down to a matcha place to get some matcha tiramisu. The place we went when we got here had it, but not vegan and I love matcha and never had tiramisu so wanted to try it if I could find it and I did! And it was so so so good! Light and delicious and Raymond was like it is like eating grass 😂 He didn’t like it as much as I did. I did end up sitting in a big park by the matcha place and reading in the sun a bit which was really nice. It was cold, but in the sun it was perfect!

Then Raymond was at work till later today so I went to spy on the cemetery again. That place is huge! I had about 45 min before it would be too dark and I didn’t get to everything, but I did have fun exploring what I did explore! All the tombs, monuments, and mausoleums are so big! The pictures make them look so tiny, but they tower over you. They are like giant 3 story tall buildings! And so many of them so you can feel really small in the middle of them. It is almost like you are in a small village of tiny, but very tall houses! And most of the graves have lots of sculptures and art on them. There is so much to see as there is so much everywhere! I really enjoyed my wander and I found that it is the second largest cemetery in Milan so the other one is super giant (this one is 62 acres and the largest one is 168 acres!).

For diner we decided to order pizza - we ordered 2 pizzas and 3 pizzas and some seaweed fried dough which was amazing showed up! I don’t know why we got three, but the pizzas were really tasty so we have plenty of leftovers for tomorrow and the next day! We got one with Vegan mortadella and pistachio and one with zucchini flowers and veggie meat - with think they might have tried making that one and put the wrong veggie meat on it so they made another one the right way and just gave us the one they messed up as well? Because two have the zucchini flowers on, but who knows. Either way we have all the pizza!

And then we ordered more of that mochi we got the other night that was amazing - almond and caramel ones and matcha ones. So good! I love all the mochi and am sad we will be mochiless tomorrow. But I enjoyed our time here in Milan, probably because were had all the great food! Oh and there are tons of super tiny cars here that look like toys. It seems like every car manufacturer has one and I think they are all electric (though you only get 75km per charge so it is really only for around town). I did see a lot of them driving around while I was walking! Lots of fun and tomorrow we head on to the next stop!Read more